Charles Reznikoff famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
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The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.
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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
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I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
-- Charles Reznikoff
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Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
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Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
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You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
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We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.
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History is a story written by the finger of God.
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Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
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