Wallace Stevens Quotes
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Quotes to Explore
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Writers are so important.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
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Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
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My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
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They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I’m sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don’t have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
