Stevie Smith Quotes
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
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I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
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"S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
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In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.
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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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The Bible is wonderful. It's only one book, but you can put two grams of coke on top of the Bible, and you first take a line of coke and then you open the Bible. Because then you understand.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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When duty calls, that is when character counts.
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The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.
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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
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Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.
