When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.


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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS
The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS
Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS
I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS
Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair ...
DAN STEVENS
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in...
DAN STEVENS
I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS
My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS
I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS
I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS
Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS
It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS
She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS
Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really gett...
CONNIE STEVENS
I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
CONNIE STEVENS
Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
CONNIE STEVENS
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
CAT STEVENS
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...
CAT STEVENS
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reveri...
MARK STEVENS
Back then, other than male players, girls really didn't have any role models in basketball. I rememb...
BARBARA STEVENS
People moving into Orange County are typically concerned about two things. They want to know about t...
BARBARA STEVENS
They read everything and know everything about the Bentley College legacy. It bothers them when they...
BARBARA STEVENS
They were coming in here ready to give us one more big shot. They had the adrenaline going early and...
BARBARA STEVENS
To be mentioned in the same breath as them is truly an honor.
BARBARA STEVENS
They must have been pretty sure of themselves. To be honest, to me it was just a conference game, a ...
BARBARA STEVENS
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was bor...
CAT STEVENS
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to s...
CAT STEVENS
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top...
SUFJAN STEVENS
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
CAT STEVENS
As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheap...
CRAIG STEVENS
But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
AMANDA STEVENS
We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to d...
ANNE STEVENS
If the government and the infrastructure is there, the technology is there today to go as far as we ...
ANNE STEVENS