"The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale."

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Dana Gioia

#Simple Quotes #Sound Quotes #Details Quotes

“Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?”
“I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.”
“Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]”
“Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“[Eva Braun] always called him der FÃ¼hrer to us. It was ridiculous, but she never changed that.”
“I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.”
“Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.”
“If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.”

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