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Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You don't sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6 -
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
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Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
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