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People think of the green pastoral when they think of lovers in nature. Those English poets used the vales and streams to douse their lusts into verse. But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance.
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
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“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
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“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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