Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.
("All the King's Men")
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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.Robert Penn Warren
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
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