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Letter "R" » refusal
«A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed»
«Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.»
«In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.»
Author: John Reed
(Poet)
| Keywords:
exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, excites, rebellious, refusal, The Masses
«People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
class struggle, constraints, corpse, everyday life, explicitly, referring, refusal, subversive
«In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.»
«Elegance is refusal.»
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, conformable, instances, interpretation, interpreting, manageable, nervous, Philistine, reducing, refusal, tames
«I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
amity, hazarding, jolly, modestly, predisposition, refusal, suitor, suitors
«Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
| Keywords:
consent, consents, friendlier, friendly, refusal, Refusals, unwilling
«I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Journalism,
Life
| Keywords:
Dante, emptiness, jeer, jeered, jeering, jeers, Journalists, refusal, ridge, ridges, shallowest, tittering
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