"There is no advance without strife."

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Source : Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “After Worlds Collide”, p.185, Macmillan

Philip Wylie

“Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.”
“Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.”
“I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!”
“The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.”
“Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.”
“The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors... so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.”
“The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.”
“Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.”

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