"Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it."

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Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

Allen Tate

#Perfection Quotes #Effort Quotes #Culture Quotes

“What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?”
“I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.”
“History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.”
“I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state”
“My future depends mostly upon myself.”

Source : Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.”
“I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
“You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2011). “Shameless”, p.168, MIRA

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