Form Quotes
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
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Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.
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We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate
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I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
