"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of… — Greta Scacchi
• Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our… — W D Richter
• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen… — Janet Malcolm
• Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming… — Kara Walker
• Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the… — Thomas Carlyle
• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world… — Susan Sontag
• London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is… — Alan Moore
• The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened;… — Anna Quindlen
• I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My… — Joyce Carol Oates
• These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only… — Pat Conroy
• Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the… — Martin Filler

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