- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have balance, you can experience all of the things going on in the world and reach out and meet people and try new things, and you shouldn't be judged for it.
- Unpredictable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is unpredictable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you need to figure out your balance. 'Cause if you think too much about that there's people around and - and how you're singing and looking and performing, I think that it won't be a good performance. Then, on the other hand, you can't just be in your own world.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
- Busyness
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020