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“repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.”

Marianne Moore

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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

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One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

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Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, “In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the…

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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful…

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The hands are the heart's messengers.

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I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

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Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

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Revision is its own reward.

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One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

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Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories…

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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they…

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A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in…

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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

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God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

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The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.…

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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic…

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play…

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