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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While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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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.
