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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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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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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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
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Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.
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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.
