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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

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