Reginald Shepherd famous quotes

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I donâ€™t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?
-- Reginald Shepherd

#Believe
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?
-- Reginald Shepherd

#Impossible #Poetry Is
I don’t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?
-- Reginald Shepherd

#Believe #Don't Trust

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Reginald Shepherd famous quotes

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