Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

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Realism can break a writer's heart.

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Faith without doubt is addiction

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We all owe death a life.

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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