Form Quotes
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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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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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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Any form of art is a form of power.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
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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.
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All my song writing starts in same form, I have so many scraps of choruses and verses and voice recordings and actual recordings, which then often conceptualises as a rhythmic and melodic and a delivery thing.
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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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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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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
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Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
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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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Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.
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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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The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
