"External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Lawrence Joseph

#War Quotes #Reality Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.”

Source : "Mother nature (part one)" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.
“I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.”
“Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Iâ€™ll write down little lines, I always say, 'K.T.N.,' and I say that to my receivers and running backs and that means 'keep taking notes.' That keeps me alert. That keeps me going. That keeps my drive there, even when youâ€™re taking notes on something that youâ€™ve already taken notes on a million times - keep taking notes.”
“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
“The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.”
“We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.”
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

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