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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.


Mary Oliver

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a few people just trying,
one way or another,...
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we will learn everything
there ...
MARY OLIVER Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
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MARY OLIVER Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
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Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green ...
MARY OLIVER They stay in my mind, these beautiful people,
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t...
MARY OLIVER And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
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I was a brideg...
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your o...
MARY OLIVER Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
a...
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When death comes
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when...
MARY OLIVER Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
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Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
in...
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Tell ...
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OLIVER STONE I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifyin...
OLIVER STONE When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
OLIVER STONE Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that&...
OLIVER STONE If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great....
OLIVER STONE I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
OLIVER STONE I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of...
OLIVER STONE There's an electrical thing about movies.
OLIVER STONE I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been ...
OLIVER STONE I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progre...
OLIVER STONE I study history in order to give an interpretation.
OLIVER STONE In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat th...
OLIVER REED If the money's right, I'll do a film.
OLIVER REED You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stre...
OLIVER REED I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
OLIVER REED I'm really a pacifist.
OLIVER REED Awe and respect are two different things.
OLIVER REED I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
OLIVER REED What's the point of staying sober?
OLIVER REED Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dr...
OLIVER REED