Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.
