Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
Van Morrison
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
Edmund Spenser
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
Wallace Stevens
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson
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In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.
Mary Beard
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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
Anna Katharine Green
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Since childhood, my mother made sure I oiled my hair and conditioned them properly every week. I still follow that regimen. Plus, I have naturally good quality hair.
Disha Patani
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I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.
Rafael Moneo
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In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.
Nancy Kress
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I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
Meghan O'Rourke
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I love you, girl. I love you more than I can say, even with my heart in the way…
Alexi Murdoch
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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Joseph Wood Krutch
