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I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on ...
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Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... 
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It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. 
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. 
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... 
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am... 
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. 
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The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... 
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ... 
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. 
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ... 