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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so theres always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. – Howard Nemerov

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Hope
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. – Howard Nemerov

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Business
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. – Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. – Stephen Hawking

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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. – G.R. Elton, The Practice of History

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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that Im pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I dont have one of those. – Gabriel Mann

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