"Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained."

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Historical Quotes #Details Quotes #Teach Quotes

“[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.”
“We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.”
“I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.18, Routledge
“I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.”

Source : "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.
“Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.”
“Insanity is a lack of proportion.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.”

Source : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
“The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.”

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