It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

E.L. Doctorow
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  2. Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

  3. Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

  4. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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