Jay Parini Quotes
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
Jay Parini
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I liked it so much, I bought the company
Victor Kiam
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, 'A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.' People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
Anthony de Mello
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But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
Bob Marley
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I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.
Leon Trotsky
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Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it
Jay-Z
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The first time I met Mary Tyler Moore, I thought she was just beautiful, but I thought she was a little young.
Dick Van Dyke
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon
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As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
Jay Parini
