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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Nov 07, 2020

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Pay
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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Nov 07, 2020

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Success
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Nov 07, 2020

Success is survival.

Dog
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

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Nov 07, 2020

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Nov 07, 2020

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Carry
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Nov 07, 2020

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Dangerous
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Nov 07, 2020

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

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