Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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