Basil Bunting Quotes
The sea has no renewal, no forgetting,no variety of death,is silent with the silence of a single note.
Basil Bunting
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
Malcolm X
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
V. E. Schwab
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Salman Rushdie
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Khaled Hosseini
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The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.
Olaudah Equiano
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
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Everything has a place and time.
Kabir Bedi
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The sea has no renewal, no forgetting,no variety of death,is silent with the silence of a single note.
Basil Bunting