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  "text": "The crucified planet Earth,\n\nshould it find a voice\n\nand a sense of irony,\n\nmight now well say\n\nof our abuse of it,\n\n\"Forgive them, Father,\n\nThey know not what they do.\"The irony would be\n\nthat we know what\n\nwe are doing.When the last living thing\n\nhas died on account of us,\n\nhow poetical it would be\n\nif Earth could say,\n\nin a voice floating up\n\nperhaps\n\nfrom the floor\n\nof the Grand Canyon,\n\n\"It is done.\"\n\nPeople did not like it here.",
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      "text": "And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to the names of persons who have checked out those titles.",
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      "text": "If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.",
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      "text": "A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.",
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