"You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly."
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"Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being."
"For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing."
"I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them"
"We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?"
"I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story."
"There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist."
"I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there."
"I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future."
"Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts."
"There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is."
"These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post."
"Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching."
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
"It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way."
"He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free."
"According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege."
"My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first."
"I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything.""
"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation."