Quote by Archibald MacLeish
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life wh

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. – Archibald MacLeish

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish

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Absurdity
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they dont want to buy things they dont need to impress people they dislike. – Emile Henry Gauvreau

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. – Benjamin Franklin

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You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. – Garrison Keillor

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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. – Donna Karan

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. – Author Unknown

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