"To be precise and reckless: that is the……" — James Dickey
"To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished."
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30 Quotes by James Dickey
James Dickey has 30 quotes on this site.
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It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and…
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If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
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Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
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I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which…
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What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally…
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What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing…
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The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
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The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.
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I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
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More Consummation Quotes
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought…
— James Dwight Dana
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to…
— Immanuel Kant
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Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the…
— Pope John Paul II
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And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in…
— Francis of Assisi
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The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . .…
— Marion G. Romney
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Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will…
— Jefferson Davis
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The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity…
— C.S. Lewis
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