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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series…
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular…
— A. C. Benson
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We are aliens and strangers in your sight, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without…
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
— H. L. Mencken
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context…
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
— Mark Doty
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For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.…
— Bob Dylan
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