Wallace Stevens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
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The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.
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We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.
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The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
