"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."

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Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

John Drinkwater

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“Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.”

Source : "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.
“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion
“If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?”
“Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom”

Source : YouTube Channel "organicjerk"/"Classic Doom 2 Preview/Trailer", www.youtube.com. January 25, 2006.
“FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.”
“I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.”
“There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”

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