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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Future
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The future aint what it used to be. – Yogi Berra

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Future

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. – Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Future

Im not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart… they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. – John Grisham

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Future

The course of life is unpredictable… no one can write his autobiography in advance. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Future

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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. – Lawrence Hargrave

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Knowledge

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. – Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

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Grammar

The other day the President said, I know youve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? – Dan Quayle

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Faith

The house appointed for all the living. – Bible

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Funerals