"Poetry surprises us with what we already know."

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Source : John Fuller (2011). “Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry”, p.12, Random House

John Fuller

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“Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.”
“I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.”
“High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.”
“The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.”
“Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.”
“The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.”
“I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.”
“I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.”

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