Adrienne Rich Quotes, Two Quotes, Phrases Quotes

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.

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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

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…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

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Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

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The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

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