Stevie Smith Quotes
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
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All celebrities are real people behind everything.
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Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
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When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
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Pity is something only weakness wants.
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The Holy Spirit never convicts (Christians) of your sins. He never comes to point out your faults…. It does not take a revelation from the Holy Spirit to see that you have failed. However, when you know that you’ve failed what you do need is for the Holy Spirit to convict you of your righteousness.
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I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.
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This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
