Stevie Smith Quotes
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
Stevie Smith
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
Ednita Nazario
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
C. Wright Mills
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
Octavia E. Butler
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
Lionel Trilling
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I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.
Jason Clarke
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
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We do not 'have' a body; rather, we 'are' bodily.
Martin Heidegger
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
Stevie Smith