"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings,……" — Thomas Harrison

"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."

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13 Quotes by Thomas Harrison

Thomas Harrison has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the…
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an…
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among…
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.
To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.
Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to…

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The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed… — Bruce Springsteen
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore… — John Thorn
By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim… — Manohla Dargis
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved,… — Lord Acton
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual… — Ann Druyan
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's… — Neil Abercrombie
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the… — William H. Seward
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books… — Diane Setterfield
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S.… — Pedro Pierluisi
Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom… — Neil Abercrombie

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