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| #591 | | If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost,
I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down
the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes. A more sententious, holding-
forth old bore who expected every hero-worshiping adenoidal little twerp
of a student-poet to hang on to his every word I never saw.
-- James Dickey
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| #592 | | If life is a stage, I want some better lighting.
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| #593 | | If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient
evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"
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| #594 | | If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
-- Louis Armstrong
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| #595 | | If you lose a son you can always get another, but there's only one
Maltese Falcon.
-- Sidney Greenstreet, "The Maltese Falcon"
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| #596 | | If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls
out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic.
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| #597 | | If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's
read by persons who move their lips when the're reading to themselves.
-- Don Marquis
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| #598 | | Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen
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| #599 | | Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.
-- Lionel Trilling
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| #600 | | Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
-- T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger"
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