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I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
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It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
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I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
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