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People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.
Rod McKuen
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Rod McKuen
Age: 81 †
Born: 1933
Born: April 29
Died: 2015
Died: January 29
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Rodney Marvin McKuen
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The journey back is always longer than the forward run.
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I chose the shadows they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.
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People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.
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I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.
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People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.
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It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.
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We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.
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Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.
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It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.
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I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.
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I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.
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We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.
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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride on air. You have only to reach out and snatch one.
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Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.
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I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.
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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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Poetry is fact given over to imagery.
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The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
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If I could do it over, I'd do better.
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and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.
Rod McKuen
