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The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.