Stevie Smith Quotes
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
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If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
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The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
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A woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
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Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
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Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
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Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
