#distinct

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. ↗

— Titus Livius

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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. ↗

— Lance Loud

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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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