"Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders."

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Source : Arthur Symons (1906). “An Introduction to the Study of Browning”

Arthur Symons

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“I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.”

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“BeyoncÃ© is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.”
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
“Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.”
“Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?”

Source : Doug Stanton (2003). “In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors”, p.177, Macmillan
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.”
“They are bearcrawls ... a bearclaw is a donut”

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