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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.


Ian Mcewan


#became #began #bubble #commented #contained

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.


Michelangelo


#block #conception #contain #does #greatest

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.


Joan Miro


#box #certain #cigarette #contains #human

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.


Vladimir Nabokov


#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.


V. S. Naipaul


#been #before #book #career #case

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.


Solomon Ortiz


#casualties #cause #container #could #day

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.


Boris Pasternak


#contain #love #love is #marriage #only

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.


Plutarch


#box #contains #door #flatterers #friends

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.


Salvatore Quasimodo


#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.


Rick Renzi


#buildings #considered #contain #extends #feature






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