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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.
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The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
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We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.
