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
Quotes to Explore
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
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Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.
Wynonna Judd
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Since space is continuous, it follows that there must be an immediate community of feeling between parts of mind infinitesimally close together. Without this, I believe it would have been impossible for any co-ordination to be established in the action of the nerve-matter of one brain.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.
Ernest Hemingway
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Benjamin Hooks
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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
