Wallace Stevens Quotes
They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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I want to get my eight hours and be able to eat good meals and not be sluggish or anything like that. My body is my temple, and I've always thought that.
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Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould.
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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.
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They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.
