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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

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Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

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Be content with an ordinary life.

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All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

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A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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