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Jack Gilbert has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration…
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We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what…
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Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built…
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Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
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I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I…
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't…
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the…
— Laila Lalami
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Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better…
— Jane Austen
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,…
— Robert Adam
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
— Francois Fenelon
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'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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