"There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed."

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Source : "American Liberals and the Streets of Cairo". newrepublic.com. January 29, 2011.

Leon Wieseltier

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“Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.”
“I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.”
“You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid”
“But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”
“In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.”
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.”
“We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in.”
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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