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memories writing past
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. Benjamin Cardozo
memories night light
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness. Carson McCullers
memories inspiration imagination
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. Carol Ann Duffy
memories trying really-great
I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories. Channing Tatum
memories grateful thinking
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. Richard Paul Evans
memories rap loss
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. Bret Easton Ellis
memories thinking atmosphere
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory. Billy Corgan
memories greatness years
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another. Boris Pasternak
memories kids vegas
For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah. Artie Lange
reality fiction epiphany
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
reality limits fairy-tale
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Azar Nafisi
reality thinking people
You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are. Brian Bosworth
reality ideas broken
Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality. Jamie Drummond
reality men order
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. Carl Sandburg
reality choices painting
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... Alain de Botton
reality causes indifference
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe. Al Goldstein
reality people pages
It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV. Charlene Li
reality one-direction passivity-is
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott
history underneath
Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that. M. Wolfe
history opportunity step
This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history. Eurico Guterres
history mean people series stories talk
That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game. Rich Brooks
history jackson lived slap
I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. Eugene Levy
history
We want to go to the place where history started. Gary White
history battle conflict
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. Anton Chekhov
history women-empowerment development
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled. Elizabeth Blackwell
history
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable. Philip Kerr
history positive theatrical tradition understanding uphold
With her understanding of 'Fiddler's' important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly. Harvey Fierstein