I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times … - Stevie Smith

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I mean, like the rest of America, I wasn't really into politics until Obama went into office, so it's all kind of new to me, but I'm excited about it. I've been watching a lot of campaign ads, doing a lot of research for it. It's so different, it'll be interesting.

Stevie Smith

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

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It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

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This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

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I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. . . . I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

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I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

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