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«John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.»
«Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources'.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.»
Author: John Berryman
(Biographer, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conclude, confess, flash, flashes, Great Sea, inner resources, moreover, repeatedly, say-so, the Great Sea, yearn, yearns
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«It was a flash of eureka.»
«Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
details, fixed, flash, illuminated, photographs, significant
«Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place»
«Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Cheerfulness
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cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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flash
«It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
common interest, dig, empirical, field goal, flash, illumination, illuminations, in a flash, psychiatry
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
attained, bathed, bathes, contradictories, contradictory, extracted, extracting, extracts, find out, flash, flashed, flashing, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, hurried, hurries, images, in a flash, sensuous, The Flash, The Vision, throng, thronged, thronging, thus, wherein, withdrawing, withdraws, withdrew
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