"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

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“The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.”

Source : "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, 2000.
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
“Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.”
“My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.”
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but Iâ€™m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. Whatâ€™s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
“You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.”
“I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.”

Source : "The passion project" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.
“What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.”

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