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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.


Edward Jenner


#beneficial #endeavour #essentially #further #hope

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.


Eyvind Johnson


#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.


R.D. Ronald


#lust #strippers #beauty

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.


Louis Kronenberger


#america #copy #life #poetry #prose

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.


Ross MacDonald


#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.


David Leavitt


#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.


Monica Lewinsky


#been #go #guess #i #knack

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?


Ella Maillart


#cut #everything #i #i am #instinctively

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.


Yann Martel


#cinema #different #language #movie #prose

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.


Lennart Meri


#iconography #maps #prose






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