#explain

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. ↗

— George Saunders

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My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love. ↗

— Charles Schumer

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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda. ↗

— Jim Talent

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