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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
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When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
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I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
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I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
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I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
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