Carlos Drummond de Andrade famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness
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Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.
-- Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
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It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
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I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
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Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
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I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
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