"On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times."

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Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

Raymond Williams

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Communication Quotes

“Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.”
“Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.”
“You've gotta stop making stuff up.”

Source : YouTube Channel "tpmtv"/"Weiner To O'Reilly- 'You're Making Stuff Up'", www.youtube.com. March 25, 2010.
“I was raised right. I dig who I am.”
“Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.”
“We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.”
“I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]”
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”

Source : "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

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