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 can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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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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Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.
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For myself the delay in assuming the office of the President may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.
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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.
