“I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky... I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.”
Denise Spranger, in 'Center of Attention', Taos News/Tempo Magazine, Mar. 21–27, 2002, p. 22
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“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
"Sometimes", § 4
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Variant: Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
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Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
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“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."”
That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
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