"But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly."

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Source : Allen Tate (1968). “The Hovering Fly: And Other Essays”

Allen Tate

#World Quotes #Hovering Quotes

“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
“Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.”
“The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.”

Source : "The Kindle: Good before, better now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
“The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.”
“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays itâ€™s no good being a cabbage â€“ unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.”
“Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.”

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