Derek Walcott Quotes
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
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Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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I don't really know much about cars.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
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Surely it isn't entirely normal to see fingers pointing at you as a rare species, the only one in captivity!
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Of all the climatologists whose careers depend on the climate changing to keep themselves publishing articles — yes, I could read that, but I don't believe it.
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If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.
