I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

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• Elaine Stritch:

  Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

• Elaine Stritch:

  My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

• Elaine Stritch:

  Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.

• Elaine Stritch:

  I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

• Elaine Stritch:

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• James Dickey:

  She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

• James Dickey:

  There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

• James Dickey:

  The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

• James Dickey:

  I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by redu

• James Dickey:

  A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.