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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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