Anne Sexton Quotes
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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The most positive men are the most credulous…
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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For this last savior, man,I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying? Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:I find no fault in this just man.
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
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Dearest,although everything has happened,nothing has happened.
