Cate Marvin Quotes
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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No dream is ever to big.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
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Never let anyone define who you are.
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If the problem with PTSD is dissociation, the goal of treatment would be association: integrating the cut-off elements of the trauma into the ongoing narrative of life, so that the brain can recognize that “that was then, and this is now.
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Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.
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I've always been a tapper, as in, on tables, school desks, my legs and chest. I've eventually been able to figure out how to move that to the guitar.
