#order

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. ↗

— Salma Hayek

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. ↗

— Alice Cooper

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An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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