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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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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

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Happiness
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Mary Oliver
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When its over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. – Mary Oliver

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amazing
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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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For an adult, eating alone at McDonalds is admitting a kind of defeat. – Jonathan Carroll

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Im really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. – Sarah McLachlan

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alone

I mean, I dont think Im alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my minds eye. You dont think they were cute like every other baby? – Dustin Hoffman

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alone

Im actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music. – Tim McGraw

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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. – Henry Mayhew

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren

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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. – Valentino Garavani

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Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. – Michael Ramsey

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