"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."

-- Robert Morgan

#Philosophical Quotes #Language Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes

“Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.”
“A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.”
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.”
“Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.
“Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.”
“Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.”
“I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.”

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