Randall Jarrell Quotes
A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
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My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.
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I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.
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I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
