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«The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
composed, self sufficient, snow, The Lonely One
«The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.»
«You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends? to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar!»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Friends,
Friendship
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and how, at odds, composed, composes, ends, friendships, odds, odds and ends, qualities, rare, strange
«Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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architectonic, composed, musical, prose, textile, work on, woven
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
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atoms, banal, color television, composed, dial, dials, dimensions, disappeared, dot, dots, dotted, drained, flat, flicker, flickering, flickers, lament, microscopic, phenomena, reassure, reassuring, reduced, registered, screen, sharply, The Dial, the movie, trivial, two dimensions
«The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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composed, composes, Cynics, fanatics, government, humane, limit, moral, No limit, oppression, tolerant, top, worst
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