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Expression Quotes
"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."
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"Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can't say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ['Happy days are back again']"
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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
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"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."
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"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"
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"Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me."
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"By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all."
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"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics."
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"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
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"There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic."
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"Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on."
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"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words."
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"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it."
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"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
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"How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?"
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"Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words."
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"From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true."
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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
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"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new."
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"We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects."
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"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
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"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression."
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"So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin."
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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
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"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression."
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"Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production."
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"Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer."
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"You are the expression of consciousness, your thoughts are the expression of you."
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"The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute."
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"I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet."
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"I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid."
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"I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas."
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"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
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"His words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness."
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"In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?"
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"It never got weird enough for me."
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"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."
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"I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression."
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"Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else's is unhygienic."
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"David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style."
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"I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused."
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"That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression."
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"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."
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"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically."
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