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Quote by Mary Oliver
I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

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Poetry isnt a profession, its a way of life. Its an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that. – Mary Oliver

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Poetry
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Mary Oliver
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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Breathing
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You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. – Liev Schreiber

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One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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alone

When youre surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when youre by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you dont feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like youre really alone. – Fiona Apple

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alone

Id like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. – Spike Lee

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alone

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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. – Myrtle Reed

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Wisdom

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

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Humor

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. – Arthur Symons

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Romantic

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats

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