Mark Strand Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
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I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
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There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
