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There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Canada is a society, rather than a nation. People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. Let there be spaces in your togetherness. It is time to be old, To take in sail. Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful. No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are. Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
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