"In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?"

-- Dana Gioia

#Voice Quotes #Age Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.”
“The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.”
“It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.”
“God is too big for just one religion.”
“I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finishedâ€¦ it is not as if you can look back and think: ahâ€¦ I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to beâ€¦”

Source : "Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' - interview". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
“Exchange ideas frequently.”
“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
“Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.”

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