"Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything."

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Denis Donoghue

#Believe Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Done Quotes

“There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.”
“The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”
“I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.”
“Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.”
“In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.”

Source : "Roy Harper: 'I fought like hell to stay alive'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
“Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air....”
“The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denialâ€”the truth only dies when true stories are untold.”

Source : Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie”, p.382, Head of Zeus

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