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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history


Lew Wallace

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WALLACE STEVENS All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE