Alfonsina Storni Quotes

I am like the she-wolf. I broke with the pack. I fled to the mountains. Growing tired of the flatlands.

Alfonsina Storni

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• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

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• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

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• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

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• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

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• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

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• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

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• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

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• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

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• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

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• My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.

  

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• I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  

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• 2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

  

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• My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

  

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• People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

  

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• What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

  

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• I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

  

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  • Good
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• A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!

  

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• I am sick and tired of reality refusing to conform to the requirements of my meticulously-researched near-future or proximate-present fictions.

  

  Charles Stross
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• A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Country
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  • Tired

• I am like the she-wolf. I broke with the pack. I fled to the mountains. Growing tired of the flatlands.

  

  Alfonsina Storni
  • Tired
  • Pack
  • She-Wolf