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"With his silver shorts and peroxided feather do, this Aussie was more Alex Jay in a low-budget sci-fi porno than rebel retiree with an interest in the Renaissance."

"Nevertheless it is about themes endowed with depth, rather uncomfortable in a culture that often seeks from poetry almost a consolation or at least a reconciliation with the world. Davinio’s poetry is…"

"Straight to her face advanced the Athenian Lykos, and it must be said that it took no slender spirit for him to do so, such was the light of slaughter in the Amazon's eyes. "What do you call this, tho…"

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

"They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing wit…"

"Degas was discussing poetry with Mallarmé; "It isn't ideas I'm short of... I've got too many" , said Degas. "But Degas," replied Mallarmé, "you can't make a poem with ideas. … You make it with words."

"Behold now, Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!"

"The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism, such as works in India, in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa."

"Bono: We were playing with for the last album and Chris talked us out of it. He said, ‘That one deserves to be finished.’ The half-baked version would have denied us this, so we owe him for that… He's…"

"Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability."

"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."

"I think these are some of the common themes : a) life is hard, brutal, capricious and unfair, b) sometimes there is a benefit to seeing it clearly, and acknowledging it truthfully..., and c) other tim…"

"Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of communism... As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plung…"

"“The notes of this music were the last thing I heard before I went off the poop and felt myself going headlong into the icy water with the engines and machinery buzzing in my ears."

"When I went to America, her message had so sunk into my ears that I became a radical. I went to America to study at the University of California, where a jurist of international law was teaching. I wa…"

"The owl of Minerva first begins her flight with the onset of dusk."

"The Mike Wallace Interview with Rod Serling"

"The world is what it is and won’t be bargained with."

"Age carries with it a double load of guilt,"

"The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism."