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Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Marianne Moore
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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.
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It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
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There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.
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The hands are the heart's messengers.
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Writing is an undertaking for the modest.
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Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times
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