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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Business Feels Like Most Should Us Usual Vote Voting Which

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Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Audiences Because Big Book Book Tour Books Cookies Girl Give Having Like Most Person Reading Scout Sell Side Tour Used Want Who Will You

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The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: About Being Everyone Feels Friend Historically Like Mainstream Thing Writer You

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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Because Before Candidate Everybody Knew Loved Me Never President Presidential Running

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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Change Chelsea Girl Going Life My Life Thought

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With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Come Even First Image Instagram Moment Twitter Without Words You

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I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Afraid Around Being Big House Live Move Perfect Poetry Poor Size Want I Can

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I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Feeling Good Had Happens Lifelong Something Something Good

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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Dread Future Like Sense Up Wake Wake Up Wonder

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I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Accident Almost Dream Life My Life Tend View

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 9th, 1949

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