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Quote by Derek Walcott
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualist

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

Other quotes by Derek Walcott

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Imagination
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Derek Walcott
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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Beauty
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Ritual, Ceremony
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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

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Ritual, Ceremony

Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. – F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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Ritual, Ceremony

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. – Amy Vanderbilt

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Ritual, Ceremony

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