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Things which do not grow and change are dead things.


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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.



When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.



We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.



Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.



You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.



When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.



some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.



Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.



Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.



So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?





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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.



I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.



The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.



Adultery is an image of hell.

Adultery is an image of hell.



Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.

Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.



I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.



The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.



For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.



Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress



You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.




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