Mary Oliver Quotes
Two or three times in my life I discovered love. Each time it seemed to solve everything. Each time it solved a great many things but not everything. Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
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Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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Two or three times in my life I discovered love. Each time it seemed to solve everything. Each time it solved a great many things but not everything. Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and thoroughly, solved everything.
