"Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was Americaâ€™s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world."

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Source : "Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

Lorin Stein

#America Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.”

Source : "The powring ovt of the seven vials".
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
“Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice.”
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
“There was very little art in my childhood.”
“Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1887). “The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes: A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular”
“Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.”

Source : Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.
“Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.”

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