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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour."
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'"
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"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
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"Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour."
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"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
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Explore more quotes by Thomas Harrison
"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."
Effect
"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
World
"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
Idea
"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
Age
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
Experience
"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
Film
"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
Art
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