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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary. ↗

— Allen Tate

#commentary #determined #gets #honor #i

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. ↗

— Allen Tate

#came #poem #question #where #why

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#books #child #every #extent #get

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#denial #found #happened #i #myself

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #extent #fairly #sensual #species

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#consumption #dichotomy #intent #making #me

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#dwell #emigration #intention #length #subject

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#our #proceed #slowly #trenches

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#career #different #different genres #extend #genres

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that. ↗

— Jason Sudeikis

#because #better #folks #funny #handle