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“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
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“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
― Why I Write
― Why I Write
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