"So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself"

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Source : Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.314, Univ of California Press

Stephen Spender

#Accepting Quotes #Aim Quotes

“You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.”
“Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.”
“The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.”

Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.
“The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.”
“And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.”
“Mariah Carey is kinda scary.”
“Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.”
“The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.”

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