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"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."
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"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."
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"I begin by considering an effect."
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"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
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"Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me."
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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."
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"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world."
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"A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment."
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"Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."
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"Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output."
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"In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect."
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"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."
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"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."
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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
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"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."
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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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"Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together."
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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."
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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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"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."
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