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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Ste

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. – Wallace Stevens

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Religion
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Wallace Stevens
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Beauty
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Wallace Stevens
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

Category:
Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
category

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893

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Self-Discovery

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann

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Self-Discovery

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self-Discovery

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin

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Self-Discovery

Random Quotes

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didnt know really know what I would do to get there. – Rachel Stevens

Category:
Travel

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment. – Barry Commoner

Category:
environmental

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. – Hamilton

Category:
Carpe Diem

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery