Stephen Dunn Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
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Yeah, I've been a little down. Totally natural. I'm getting a divorce, but now I'm ready to pull myself up by some G-strings.
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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
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My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.
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There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters.
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You need not weep for Tupac, but weep for yourself, because we are left here with these contradictions that we still must face.
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Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!
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In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
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I love what's left after love has been tested.
