"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."

-- Michael Tippett

#Doe Quotes #Accord Quotes #Internals Quotes

“One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.”
“Originality is merely an illusion.”
“Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.”
“Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.”
“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.”

Source : Isaac Rosenfeld, Mark Shechner (1988). “Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader”, p.123, Wayne State University Press
“We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.”
“What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.”
“Modesty and chastity are twins”

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