"The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life."

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Source : 'The Great Tradition' (1948) ch. 1

F. R. Leavis

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“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”
“Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.”
“You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.”
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”

Source : United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
“For everyday, Rebecca Minkoff's collection is chic and comfortable at the same time.”
“We are ALL broadcasters.”
“Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.”
“We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb,”

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