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Quote by David Antin
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly run

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. – David Antin

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. – David Antin

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Experience
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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Poetry
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While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

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Poetry
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Future
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Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing Im going to do is play politics with their future. – Lindsey Graham

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Future

Im sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Future

All I can say is that Im getting married in the future. Ive narrowed it down to that. – Tiger Woods

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Future

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. – Maurice Sendak

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Future

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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Lets reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence. – John Garamendi

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Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. – Author Unknown

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Black History

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the worlds heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it. – Langston Hughes

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