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“Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.”
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“In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.”
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“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.”
Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press
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“When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!”
Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.56, Rutgers University Press
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“We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.”
Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.302, Counterpoint
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“Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.”
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“Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.”
Source : "How Sweet Yolanda!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. October 22, 2012.
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“Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.”
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“The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.”
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“I conduct faster so you can see my beat.”