"Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry."

-- Clive James

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“I mean, I am a little different from the band in that I, I'm pretty much an isolated writer. I don't associate myself with a lot of other writers, unless like, I'll write someone like a fan letter, and we start talking from then on, or like a songwriter that I like, you know.”
“a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.”
“I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.”

Source : "Next Factor: 'Big Happy Family' Star Lauren London". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2011.
“You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.”

Source : Witold Rybczynski (1987). “Home: A Short History of an Idea”, Penguin Group USA
“Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.”
“Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.”
“I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

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