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“Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.”
Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
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“If you do right, everything will come out right.”
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“We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.”
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“Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.”
Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.6482, Library of Alexandria
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“Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.”
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“In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.”
Source : "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.
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“The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.”
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“I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.”