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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings…
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A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events…
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing…
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…
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Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…
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For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -…
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In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the…
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?…
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We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.
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Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment…
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come…
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should…
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…
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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
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My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of…
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In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear…
— Jason Schwartzman
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You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
— Helen Vendler
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Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.…
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear…
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say…
— Eudora Welty
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In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us.…
— Art Garfunkel
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