“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Mrs Whatsit, Ch. 1
Source: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
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“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.
As quoted in Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976) by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, p. 224, also in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 390
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves”
Durant, Will. Commencement Speech. We Have a Right To Be Happy Today https://web.archive.org/web/20130106111821/http://www.willdurant.com/youth.htm. Webb School of Claremont, CA. 7 Jun 1958.
Context: To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
“Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”
"Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame http://www.danagioia.net/about/brame.htm, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (Spring 1995)
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