Alfred Austin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
