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When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

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One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

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Every woman adores a Fascist.

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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

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What I want back is what I was.

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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

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Widow. The word consumes itself.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1932

Died: February 11th, 1963

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