"The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I think it's important that people try not to be false. The ideal would be that everybody says everything in print. I don't know that it's that I'm not afraid."

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Dan Chiasson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.”
“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”
“If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.”
“Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.”
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques ...”

Source : "This Week" with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 14, 2010.
“The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.”
“Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.”
“Stores can be indifferent to something new.”

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