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Sam Hamill
"It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't."
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Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
Sam Hamill
#Nice Quotes
#Bed Quotes
#Would Be Quotes
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“If hell is to roam, then i've got hell to pave...”
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“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.”
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“The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.”
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“There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.”
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“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”
Source : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
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“I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.”
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“The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.”
Source : Paul Johnson (1972). “The offshore islanders; England's people from Roman occupation to the present”