"Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.


Mary Oliver

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The believer is not a slave to fashion.

ABU AMEENAH BILAL PHILIPS
The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement."
ARTHUR GRAY
BERYL MARKHAM Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the tea...
ARTHUR GRAY
PET TORRES NEIL GAIMAN ROBERT GODDEN and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like eve...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER
I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

COCO J. GINGER
Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN
Here is the time for the sayable, here
is its home.
Speak and attest. More than ever
RAINER MARIA RILKE
The More Loving One

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all ...
W.H. AUDEN
Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
THOMAS J. WATSON
The shades of night were falling fast,
As though an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, '...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON
Oh, wow."

"What do you think?"

"I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much...
ELIZABETH HUNTER
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY

There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eat...
PIET HEIN
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no re...
JOHN LENNON
Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware th...
CATHERINE FISHER
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL
It was unbelievably hard to get this done, ... Over the years, Johnny understood. He was patient bey...
JAMES MANGOLD
This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Autumn has come
and reason has gone.
Yesterday, I sold the sun for you
and tonight...
KAMAND KOJOURI
No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
PABLO NERUDA
I've written you sixty-seven love poems.
Here’s another one for you.
But really, for me....
KAMAND KOJOURI
Sour Milk

You can't make it
turn sweet
again.
Once
it was an innocen...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Are we like two stars in a constellation
Seeming so close
And making so much sense
Ye...
JUSTIN WETCH
I never knew
I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was wai...
THE FRAY
(...) ha! what is hope? a butterfly in a box

of demons, and nothing escapes the dark
MOONSHINE NOIRE
This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day:

''So Picard ...
MELANIE KAY TAYLOR
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
SYLVIA PLATH
Snow White one, Snow White two,
Sorrow is coming out for you.
Snow White three, Snow White...
CAMERON JACE
XVI
I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
PABLO NERUDA
The dark sky.
A hundred million stars.
More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes le...
BETH REVIS
End of the Summer

It was end of the summer
And my heart was broken
but i was sm...
ARZUM UZUN
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
To...
ROBERT FROST
People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...

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he is only passing throug...
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what you had to do, and began,
thou...
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Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must
take care of what has...
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Every morning I walk like this around
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or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing, MARY OLIVER
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which...
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When

When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know
any of us, what happens th...
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I want to be light and frolicsome.
...
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
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To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or ano...
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I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily...
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the rain
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slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER
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So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one...
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Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some goo...
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There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.

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We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, al...
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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself include...
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I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
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I do not live happily or comfortably
With the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all abo...
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I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
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What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.
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Praying

It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lo...
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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
MARY OLIVER
Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world.
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Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.
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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, ho...
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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a ha...
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Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
He has slept all night ...
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The sweetness of dogs (fifteen)

What do you say, Percy? I am thinking
of sitting ou...
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I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck...
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LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
...
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Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the...
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes...
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I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on...
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If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of live...
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And now you'll be telling stories
of my coming back
and they won't be false, and they won'...
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Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
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What can we dobut keep on breathing in and out,modest and willing, and in our places?
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I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I wen...
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social work...
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not givi...
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West Wind #2

You are young. So you know everything. You leap
into the boat and begi...
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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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 possib...
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
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Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not bei...
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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the w...
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Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning
...
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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
MARY OLIVER
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. W...
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Pretty Song"

From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return....
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The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me a box fu...
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And who do you
think you are sauntering along
five feet up in the air, the ocean a blue f...
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As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say

how it has b...
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Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.
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oxygen

Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even,
while it calls the earth its ...
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Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
MARY OLIVER
I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going we...
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The Poet With His Face In His Hands

You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes....
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Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the wei...
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
...
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I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this...
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the b...
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You must never stop being whimsical.
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I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life...
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I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my li...
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And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the ...
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In your hands

The dog, the donkey, surely they know
They are alive.
Who would ...
MARY OLIVER
You’re like a little wild thing
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and anyway it’s just the same old story --
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one way or another,...
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It is possible, I suppose that sometime
we will learn everything
there ...
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Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
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Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I thi...
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...to be absent from the world
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I believe you did not have a happy life.
I believe you were cheated.
I believe your best f...
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And what has consciousness come to anyway, so far, that is better than these light-filled bodies?
MARY OLIVER
The water, that circle of shattered glass,
healed itself with a slow whisper
and lay back
MARY OLIVER
All my life
I have been restless-
I have felt there is something
more wonderful than ...
MARY OLIVER
Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
MARY OLIVER
When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind ...
MARY OLIVER
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER
They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
or anyway beautiful people to me, of which
t...
MARY OLIVER
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire...
MARY OLIVER
When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
MARY OLIVER
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
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At Blackwater Pond

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER
Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your o...
MARY OLIVER
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
a...
MARY OLIVER
When Death Comes

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
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Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly
MARY OLIVER
In Blackwater Woods

Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
MARY OLIVER
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell ...
MARY OLIVER
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own ...
MARY OLIVER
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
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TIDES Every day the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled unde...
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He puts his face over th...
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I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
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I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER
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My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
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I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
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I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one o...
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
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The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeli...
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it w...
OLIVER STONE
In any film there's always a historical implication.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced...
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she...
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder...
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find th...
OLIVER STONE
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE
There's an electrical thing about movies.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I'm really a pacifist.
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Awe and respect are two different things.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
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