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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. — Ezra Pound
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who… — Alfred Nobel
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we… — Dinaw Mengestu
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with… — Dinaw Mengestu
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be… — Dinaw Mengestu
The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world… — Ansel Adams
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us. — Alfred Stieglitz
I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something… — William Albert Allard
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements… — Shirley Chisholm
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time,… — Joseph McCarthy
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. — David Antin
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger. — Edward Abbey
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies… — Edward Abbey
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's… — Edward Abbey

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