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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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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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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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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There are times and moments and there will be one in this playoffs where he will do the offensive work. He's going to be on fire and feeling the ability to go out there and shoot anytime, any place. Right now, I think he's just moving the ball well and doing the right things for us.
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Everything changes when a man becomes purple
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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.
