"Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on."

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Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”
“Better is to bow than breake.”
“As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.”
“The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press
“The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.”
“I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”
“No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”
“Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.”

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