e. e. cummings Quotes
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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People's connection to their clothes is very interesting. And rather than my own exposure, I would rather have the clothes be reachable and for people to be able to make those connections on their own.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
