Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas.
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A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.
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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
