Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. - Neil Simon

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Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Neil Simon

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

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He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

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I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

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The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world. . . He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

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For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

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