Babette Deutsch Quotes
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.
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Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us... Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed... When we die, No-one will know it's happened
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
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Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
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The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
