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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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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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.
