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/ page 172 of 1205 /It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
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The prosaic matter, to communicate in that particular sense something in mind, something of value, or something recognizable.
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There was a great moment a couple of years ago when Jim Kelly had hurt his elbow and Frank Reich came in and won the game against Miami the next week. He was asked afterwards immediately by the press, what'd you do?
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First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
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Everything is so contiguous and contingent that reality doesn't inhere in one focus.
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The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
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There's a wild billboard down the street, I'd almost be grateful if you'd get a picture of it, it says, "If God wrote an editorial in the newspaper, wouldn't you read it?"
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You set up a time track, but you can equally leave it. In fact, it is left endlessly when a book has become, like The Wizard of Oz for example, the exfoliating conditions and adventures.
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
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We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
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...Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs).
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
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The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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