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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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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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Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms - bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees - that go beyond the ordinary politician's normal narcissism.
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I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
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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.
