Mark Strand Quotes
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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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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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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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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.
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I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
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Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
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Time, they say, must the best of us capture,And travel and battle and gems and goldNo more can kindle the ancient rapture,For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
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The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
