#hall

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #irony #regards #simple #simple truth

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#break #break up #consequence #direction #false

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#benches #facing #hall #held #perched

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#platitudes #reach #shall

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#hallucinogenic #i #i am #me #take

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#known #longer #myself #prism #shall

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. ↗

— de Selby

#death #flann-o-brien #hallucinations #reality #the-third-policeman

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#city #city hall #counted #course #cover

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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