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“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.”

Mind Has Beens Light Lying Understanding Fiction Air Sea Special Trade Science Fiction Forgotten Insight Invention Kingdoms Islands Fancy Poetic Commodity Atlantis Sociological

Author:Peter Medawar

“Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.”

Art Stills Country Seems Lying Passion Special Dying Benefits Art Is Organization Patient All Time Grants Providence Sensibility Shields Invincible Contemplative

Author:George Sand

“Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.”

Kind Lying Term Special Ought Strict Flattery Slander Censure Antithesis

Book:Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life

Source: Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life

“... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Persons Two Lying Environment Mystery Special Truth Is Crisis Deeper Boundaries Intimacy

Author:Elizabeth Ferrars