"If you've been put in your place long……" — Randall Jarrell

"If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place."

— Randall Jarrell

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28 Quotes by Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world…
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is…
It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your…
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning…
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like…
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less,…
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all,…
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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