Department of Literature
"Quotations"
Department
of Literature
"Quotations"
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"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things." Pablo Picasso |
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| "As
they were traveling along in this endless forest then the complete gentleman
in the market that the lady was following, began to return the hired parts
of his body to the owners and he was paying them the rentage money. When
he reached where he hired the left foot, he pulled it out, he gave it
to the owner and paid him, and they kept going; when they reached the
place where he hired the right foot, he pulled it out and gave it to the
owner and paid for the rentage. Now both feet had returned to the owners,
so he began to crawl along on the ground, by that time, that lady wanted
to go back to her town or her father, but the terrible and curious creature
or the complete gentleman did not allow her to return or go back to her
town or her father again and the complete gentleman said thus:-- "I
had told you not to follow me before we branched into this endless forest
which belongs to only terrible and curious creatures, but when I become
a half-bodied incomplete gentleman you wanted to go back, now that cannot
be done, you have failed. Even you have never seen anything yet, just
follow me."
From
The
Palm-Wine Drinkard |
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| "When
I awoke again two thoughts came into my head so closely together that
they seemed to be stuck to one another; I could not be sure which came
first and it was hard to separate them and examine them singly."
From
The
Third Policeman |
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| "The
guitar is one of the most popular instruments of all time. It makes a
very pleasing sound, it is small enough and light enough to carry around
and it has a romantic appeal."
From
How
to Play Guitar |
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| "Form
and content are best used as relative terms, useful for temporarily
isolating specific aspects of art for the purposes of closer examination.
Such an unnatural isolation is, in a sense, artificial, yet frequently
this technique yields more detailed insights into the work of art as a
whole. In criticism, one can even consider 'pure'
forms, such as colors, shapes, or sounds. But psychologists have discovered
that even nonrepresentational forms suggest ideas, emotions, sensations
-- that is, information."
From
Understanding
Movies |
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