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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. ↗

— Peter Scott

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We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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To see you naked is to recall the Earth. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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