Stevie Smith Quotes
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Those who go along get along.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
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Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
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I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.
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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me, and I want you to know, I will work my heart out to make sure Al Gore is the next president of the United States.
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I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to be, but don't test me. It never was a done deal. It was a possibility. I'm happy about that. But there's two sides to that. On one side, I trust you, but don't play me. I don't care who it is, if it's the Boss, if it's him, don't play me. There are plenty of other teams out there that want my services ... that's the bottom line.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
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In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.
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There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.
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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.