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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. (Felix Dennis)
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting. View quote
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I cannot abide being bored. View quote
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.' View quote
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. View quote
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists. View quote
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. View quote
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media. View quote
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you. View quote
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done. View quote
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. (Felix Dennis)
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything. View quote
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Everything I publish is for my readers. View quote
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. View quote
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor. View quote
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation. View quote
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store? View quote
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? View quote
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it. View quote
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have. View quote
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. (Felix Dennis)
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. View quote
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres. View quote
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort. View quote
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody. View quote
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