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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

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When I was young and miserable and pretty. And poor, I'd wish. What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wish. Is womanish: That the boy putting groceries in my car. See me. Randall Jarrell
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He was simply not a “hero”, which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman. Thomas Mann
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. Isabelle Huppert
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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. George Henry Lewes
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all. Ornette Coleman
they pulled Ezra through the streets in a wooden cage. Blake was sure of God. Villon was a mugger. Lorca sucked cock. T. S. Eliot worked a teller's cage Charles Bukowski
Boris Johnson quote: "Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch..."
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. Boris Johnson
What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to... Roger Angell
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy
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I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative. Brit Hume
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. Thomas More
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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori
I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first. Sue Grafton