A. R. Ammons Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.
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I don't die in anything!
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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Food can change anything.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Any job is wonderful.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
