For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
("The Power of Myth")
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If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path No One Has Ever Been On It Before, theres No Precedent, So Everything That Happens Is A Surprise Is Timely.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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