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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I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
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When you're happy, you look beautiful.
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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.
