"One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it."

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Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

A. R. Ammons

#Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.”
“Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.”
“The death of contentment is comparison.”
“Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done”
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”
“Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.”
“People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.”
“Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.”

Source : "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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