"For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous"

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Source : Walter J. Ong, John Hartley (2012). “Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word”, p.72, Routledge

Walter J. Ong

“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”
“For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot”
“Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar
“Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”
“Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.”

Source : "How we get dressed". Interview with Marion Hume, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2006.
“John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, â€If you want something to look interesting, donâ€™t light all of it.”
“. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .”
“I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.”

Source : "Senator McCain, Please Define 'Free Nation'" by Vanessa Edwards Foster, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2008.

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