Allen Tate Quotes
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
Quotes to Explore
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.
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I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.
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An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.
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In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.
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Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
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But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
