"Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a……" — John Berryman
"Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie."
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John Berryman
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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 Corner Quotes
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one of 1,346 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
— Amelia Barr
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days,…
— Adele
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
— Bernard Berenson
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I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
— Bjork
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
— Bono
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed…
— Bono
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would…
— Mel Brooks
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
— James Broughton
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a…
— Alan Alda
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a…
— Herb Caen
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