"An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.”

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“The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes”

Source : Song: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.”
“The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.”

Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.887, Vintage
“One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.”
“You don't get a life until you make one worth living.”
“Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I doâ€”back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.”
“We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.”

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