Elaine Scarry Quotes
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
Elaine Scarry
Quotes to Explore
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To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.
George Washington
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Perhaps uncertainty is a good trait, in line with the complexity of the world in which we live.
Adam Fletcher
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Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
Georges Courteline
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Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
Edward Hallowell
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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
Edgar Allan Poe
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When I was 18, there were 50 people that I called my friends. Today, there are only three, but I'm glad to have those three. If you have three people that you can really call your friends, then you truly have it made.
Johnny Rzeznik
Goo Goo Dolls
