What we call philosophy today is a complicated method of avoiding all the important problems of life.
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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.Kenneth Rexroth
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
Kenneth Rexroth
Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
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