"I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam;……" — John Berryman
"I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy of who love me and who shine."
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25 Quotes by John Berryman
John Berryman has 25 quotes on this site.
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At…
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves…
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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise…
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Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
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Literature bores me, especially great literature
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Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
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We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
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One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
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This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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