"clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?"

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Source : Rae Armantrout (2007). “Collected Prose”

Rae Armantrout

#Poetry Quotes #World Quotes #Needs Quotes

“November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and Â could do nothing but weep and fret over it.”
“If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”
“Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.”
“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”
“That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...”
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.
“Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away”

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