"The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows."

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Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.

Stanley Fish

#Development Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Looking Forward Quotes

“Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.”
“I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.”
“At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for you. Then after you had it for a little while you could decide if you were interested in taking lessons or you could also get your own gear. Or you could turn that instrument in for another one and try something else. So that's how I got my hands on the guitar.”

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“Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.”
“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.”
“My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.”
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
“Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.”

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