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History repeats herself.
Hope is a dream deferred.
Longing is all that lasts.
Love is all there's time for.
Integrity pays, but not in cash.
Opinion is the death of knowledge.
Misogyny is the death of the heart.
High school was great when it ended.
Consumerism is our national religion.
Secrets of the heart are seldom news.
For a poet, style is the only morality.
One parody is worth a thousand polemics.
Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.
it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.
TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.
ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.
The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.
We do what we can. The results are none of our business.
What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.
sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.
There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.
I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.
if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.
Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.
It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.
Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.
Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.
I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.
During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.