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“One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.”
Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
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“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.72, Faber & Faber
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“Do it with passion, or not at all.”
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“So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?”
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“The average man. The emergence of the concept.”
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“Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”
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“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
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“We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.”
Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.