Wallace Stevens Quotes
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Quotes to Explore
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
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I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
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A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
