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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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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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 was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.
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For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?
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If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
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Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
