Form Quotes
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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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More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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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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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.
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Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
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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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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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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
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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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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
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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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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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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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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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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
