"So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain."

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Source : 1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader of These Sonnets'.

Michael Drayton

#Fashion Quotes #Long Quotes #Muse Quotes

“Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.”
“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”
“People think that the government honors and respects us, and that they're actually going to come in and help people in need, but in reality it's really just a bunch of red tape, and through the power of language they can really make it seem like they're going to do a lot when they aren't going to do anything but filter money back into their own pockets.”
“Chess is 99 percent calculation.”
“If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.”
“If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, donâ€™t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.”
“What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatureâ€¦ That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.62, Macmillan
“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”

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