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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
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If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers, .. That's not censorship. That's common sense.
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The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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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.
