"Creation implies authority in the sense of originator."

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Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.174, Univ of California Press

Kenneth Burke

#Creation Quotes #Authority Quotes

“I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests”
“None knew thee but to love thee.”
“Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.”
“There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.”
“My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.”
“I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.”
“I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.”
“Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.”

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