Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
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He who believes needs no explanation.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
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And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
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In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.
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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
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It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
