"So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry."
-Nicholson Baker
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"I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.“
-Nicholson Baker
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"From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."
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"When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry."
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"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
-John Lennon
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
-H. P. Lovecraft
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"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
-Les Brown
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