"Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress..."

-- John Muir

#Creative Quotes #Progress Quotes #Blind Quotes

“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr
“I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.”
“Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.”
“If youâ€™re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, youâ€™d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.”
“It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.”
“Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.”

Source : C. J. Cherryh (2011). “Deceiver”, p.123, Penguin
“Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.”

Source : "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.

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