Randall Jarrell Quotes
Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!
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The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
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The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.
