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«The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich»
«Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources'.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.»
Author: John Berryman
(Biographer, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conclude, confess, flash, flashes, Great Sea, inner resources, moreover, repeatedly, say-so, the Great Sea, yearn, yearns
«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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buds, chemistry, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, fiery, flashes, glint, granite, indefinite, mica, Moses, mount, Mount Sinai, potentialities, represented, Sinai, swell, torn
«Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.»
Author: Theodor Reik
(Author, Psychoanalyst)
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attract, flashes, innovator, innovators, lightning, lightning rod, rods, thinkers, wrath
«The sunlight flashes off your windshield,and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin--and vanish around a curve in this whipof a road we can't help traveling together.»
«The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.»
«One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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flashes, formed, hears, in a flash, lightning, of necessity, unfalteringly
«His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.»
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