"And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical."

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Source : Andrew Clements (2008). “Things Hoped For”, p.77, Penguin

Andrew Clements

#Clever Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.”
“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”
“No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.”
“Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.”

Source : "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.
“And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.”

Source : "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, www.wired.com. April 1, 2000.
“I loved curling and I loved the social aspect of it, the team. It's like if you had the same golf foursome for a long time, or if you're a bridge player, or a beer-league hockey team. You start to look forward to that time together and camaraderie, and having something that you do just for yourself.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.”

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