I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
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You can't tell when strange things with meaningwill happen. I'm still here writing it downjust the way it was. You don't have toprove anything, my mother said. Just be readyfor what God sends.
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The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for othersthey act only from the self --and that self will never be rightno luck, no help, no wisdom.
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I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .
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It is time for all the heroes to go homeif they have any, time for all of us common onesto locate ourselves by the real thingswe live by.
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