"Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people."

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Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

Diana Trilling

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“The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.82, Wave Books
“To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.”
“Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1865). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.214
“I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.”
“When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.”
“Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.”
“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”

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