#poses

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds. ↗

— Kate Smith

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

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I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#give #man #poses #questions #right

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. ↗