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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
- Randall Jarrell
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#Life
#Up
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
- Randall Jarrell
#Men And Women
#Men
#Understand
#Women
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
- Randall Jarrell
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#Frightening
#Manners
#More
#None
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell
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#Child
#Facts
#Forgotten
#Obvious
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
- Randall Jarrell
#Editors
#He
#Just
#Review
#Two
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell
#Culture
#Definition
#Modern
#Poetry
#Possible
#Think
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
- Randall Jarrell
#Better
#Home
#Life
#Live
#Rest
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
- Randall Jarrell
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#Lightning
#Man
#Poet
#Standing
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
- Randall Jarrell
#Every
#Except
#Free
#Oyster
#United
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
- Randall Jarrell
#Know
#Meet
#Politician
#Politicians
#Say
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
- Randall Jarrell
#Age
#Complaining
#Golden
#Live
#People
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