"Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity."

-- William Safire

#Tired Quotes #Needs Quotes #Nuance Quotes

“The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.”
“And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.”
“She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.”

Source : "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".
“Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.”

Source : Recalled on his death,7 Sep 1951, and quoted in the Smithsonian, Apr1 988.
“My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”
“The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.”

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