Wallace Stevens Quotes
A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
Wallace Stevens
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Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty
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As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
Gayle Forman
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
Dan Hawkins
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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
Carl Hiaasen
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That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.
Orson Scott Card
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The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
Otto Weininger
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The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer.
Wallace Stevens
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Kate Chopin
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Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim. That's why the world is in the shape that it's in.
Louis Farrakhan
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Too bad, I'm no poet, I happen to know it, But anyway Here's a roundelay I wrote last night about you...
Cole Porter
