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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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