Guy Davenport Quotes

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Guy Davenport

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 23, 1927 - January 4, 2005

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I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

Megan Fox

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When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Matt Prokop

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I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

Shirin Neshat

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It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Rory Stewart

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I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.

Mary Pierce

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I always knew I was the center of my parents.

Chelsea Clinton

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Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Christian Dior

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I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

Cory Michael Smith

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I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Corey Reynolds

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I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Armistead Maupin

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Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton

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It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

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