Wallace Stevens Quotes
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
Quotes to Explore
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
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The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
