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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was jus

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. – Marilyn Hacker

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My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. – Marilyn Hacker

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Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato

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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. – Orison Swett Marden

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. – Jean Paul

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A brave arm makes a short sword long. – Author Unknown

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. – Sallust

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You cant make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All youre doing is recording it. – Art Buchwald

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Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. – Author Unknown

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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. Thats not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after. – Edie Brickell

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