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Toni Morrison quote: "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that..."

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

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To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine had 'one of those strong wills that know no obstacle'. what are we to read? will, energy, obstinacy, stubbornness, etc.? Roland Barthes
Charles Keating quote: "In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback."
In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback. Charles Keating
The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant. David Foster Wallace
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When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become. Greg Bear
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. Dee Hock
Ann Patchett quote: "The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver."
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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. Joe Wilson
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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ernest Hemingway quote: "You did not have to like it because you understood it"
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Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. Luc Ferrari