Tomas Transtromer Quotes
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
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Something is always simple until you try it.
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A good sense of humor and someone who is loyal and cute-I like cute girls.
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If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.
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In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
