Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 2078.
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People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
Source: 1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
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