"I HATED the Salinger story. It took me……" — Elizabeth Bishop
"I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?"
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35 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see…
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
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The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems,…
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Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
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Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent…
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What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation,…
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More Blushing Quotes
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing…
— William C. Bryant
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you…
— Alexander Pope
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?
— Gracie Allen
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I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have…
— Eva Green
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