e. e. cummings Quotes

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

e. e. cummings

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• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

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• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

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• I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

  

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• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

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• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

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• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

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• It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
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• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
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• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
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• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

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  • Old
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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

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  • Up
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• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
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• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

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• My normal look is so regular that when I'm going out or doing something, I like to be excessive. I'm very Italian - I don't like to go small.

  

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• I got through college.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
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• Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

  

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• Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

  

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  • Home
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• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • America
  • Mistakes
  • Hell