A. R. Ammons Quotes
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
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The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
