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“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

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"The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; b…"

— Tennessee Williams

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"Initially I observed, in sweeping, panoramic vision, a perpetually metamorphosing Persian rug. A few minutes later these patterns segued into cinematic images from childhood—it was kind of like watchi…"

— David Woodard

Music1964

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"The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lea…"

— Kenneth Boulding

Economics1910–1993

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"The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple tre…"

— Malcolm Lowry

Literature1909–1957

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