"The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves."

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Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

Roger Rosenblatt

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.”

Source : Sandra Marie Schneiders (2004). “Beyond Patching: Faith and Feminism in the Catholic Church”, p.4, Paulist Press
“In fact living is dying.”
“I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of Brakhage. For me, it was a revolution, because I was well educated in film, but American-style experimental film was known to me in the abstract, and I had seen practically nothing. I had seen a film then that NoÃ«l Burch had found and was distributing called Echoes of Silence. It was a beautiful film, three hours long. It goes forever and it was in black and white, very grainy, and I saw that film and I thought...it was not New Wave. It was really a new concept of cinema.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.”
“Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.”
“Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.”
“A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.”

Source : "Lester the legend back to claim the limelight" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2007.
“The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.”

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