Wallace Thurman Quotes
We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.
Wallace Thurman
Quotes to Explore
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
Pat Summitt
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Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.
Cynthia Heimel
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
Robert Frost
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The rigid tree will be felled.
Lao Tzu
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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
William Butler Yeats
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I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
William Griffith Wilson
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I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.
Jacoby Shaddix
Papa Roach
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My best Valentine's Day was when someone gave me a teddy bear. It was a really, really big bear!
Dinah Jane
Fifth Harmony
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The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day
Scott Adams
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
Albert Camus
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Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly.
Eddie Cochran
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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.
Katherine Applegate
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I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
Eve Ensler
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I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.
Sharon Stone
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The future begins today.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
Michel Foucault
