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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Kingston
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Writing
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People
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Poetry
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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The key to successful business is self belief and application.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I love the business of business I love the risk raking.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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