“I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.” ThinkingWantYearsFirstsMadeBookMomentsCausesCrimeParticularFirst TimePunishmentCrime And Punishment Author:Ron Rash
“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.” PeopleMenFirstsHumansMayTwoWarMomentsFormLeftGenerationsObjectsParticularGuitarCrowdsPopsJustifyGatheringCravingSlidesSurveillanceEmbodimentLoneWoodstockMonterey Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.” IfsGivingFirstsKindStatesFeelingsCareCausesPrinciplesDangerParticularInstinctSakePainfulExcitedExplanationComfortingLiberatingDiscomfortAbolishConditional Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship between people and the society in which they live was irreversibly altered.” PeopleWayFirstsHandsFoundTroubleParticularPerceptionAlteredIlluminating Author:Tony Blair
“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.” FirstsLooksFeelingsHumanitySeeingAirFiguresParticularFirst TimeShoesStrangerSuitsPinsTerminal Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.” IfsThinkingFirstsDoePhilosophyMightLife IsSubjectsEffectsParticularCatValuableGravesSuperiorsMiceBeatenRemarksPessimist Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.” MenFirstsUnderstandingOpinionParticularAuthorityReputationCombat Author:John Dryden
“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.” FirstsStatesValuesTermWrittenParticularExpressionMoralityFunctionAbsolutesJustifyAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentProtectivePropriety Author:William O. Douglas