Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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Digital has really made the fashion industry a lot more transparent. So people can see and understand how the industry really works, and participate in an industry that was very inaccessible to people. The only thing that people used to see before was the end product. Anyone can participate in it now.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
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I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.
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The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.
