"Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment."

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Source : Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

Stephen Crane

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“I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.”
“The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.”
“We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.”
“My first husband was a serial cheater.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.
“It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.”
“I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.”

Source : "Willem and able" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.
“Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.”

Source : "Ed Burns, Lead Singer for the Indie-Rock Movies of Our Time". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2011.
“Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.”

Source : 1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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