Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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