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“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”
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“It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.”
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“All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.”
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“We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual — by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent — place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.”
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“When we are prosperous, our friends know us; when we are poor, we know our friends.”
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“Retirement ... may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
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“Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.”
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“... in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”