Derek Walcott Quotes
I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
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'Oh, to be a minion,' muttered Giac to himself dreamily. 'I was a sub-minion.'
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
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A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
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What is done can never be undone.
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Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
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I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
