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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6967/">Quotes by <em>Stevens, Wallace</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."

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"Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces."

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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

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"The imagination is man's power over nature."

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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

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"How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?"

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"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."

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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."

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"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."

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"They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar."

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