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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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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom…
— Coventry Patmore
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra…
— Isaac Babel
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The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside,…
— James Longstreet
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…
— John Dryden
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Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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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…
— Ralph Ellison
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What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me…
— John Dryden
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