I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are … - Rose Macaulay

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I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Rose Macaulay

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed. . . they seem often the last straw that breaks the back. . . you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

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One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

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The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

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Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

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Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal. . . unless she's really attractive.

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Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. . . To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

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