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Octavio Paz Quotes

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: mexican
Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

Time Die Condemned Thus Bit

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

Girl Perspective Writing Thought She

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do not intend to discuss that point. We of the staple and exporting States have long settled the question for ourselves, almost unanimously, from sad experience.

John C. Calhoun

Sad Great Experience Diversity Long

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

People Been How Amazed Actually

I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.

Live Daily People City Looking Look

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

Change Year You Wrong Interview

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

Child February Born First Child

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Great Risks People Sex Achieve Sin

I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of a colossal '79 Lincoln Coupe Mark V, embarking on some otherwise forgettable road trip somewhere in the Deep South.

Time Road Deep Remember Fall Back

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Music Disco Movies Monster Universal

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Life Beauty Walk Angry Poetry You

I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.

Football Baseball People Basketball

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

Know Worse Than Could Although Andy

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