Dawn Lundy Martin Quotes
I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
