Peter Sotos Quotes
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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As far as the 'Mad Men' thing, I love 'Mad Men.' It's one of my favorite shows; I think it's an amazing series.
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The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring yield of commodities, to health and well-being of ecosystems and communities. Industrial agriculture has its roots in war. Ecological agriculture allows us to make peace with the earth, soil and the society.
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With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.
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Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
