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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Literature
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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We'll try this first. If it doesn't work, we'll try something else. That's life, isn't it?

Something else Try Life
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Like Life
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Believe Decline Even Literary
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Drug Addicts Sounds Cat
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Science is about unravelling nature.

About Unraveling Nature Science
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

About Better Comfort Cost
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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Strange Italy Five hour Africa
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Being Concerns Decent Gandhi
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Like Know Doctor Music
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I don't like to go to strange places.

Like Strange Places
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Ability Basic Best Company
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

Three Playing Piano Onstage
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

Availability Biggest Corporation Good
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

Accepting Always Any Before
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Am Best Company Compare
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Act Clear Desire Except
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Affection AllMyLife Been Every
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Angeles Awful Everybody Famous
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Expensive Grand Had Like
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I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

Away Bill Bill Gates Enormous
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

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I have always focused on the bottom line.

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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

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I like pushing boundaries.
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I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

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Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Difficult Difficult Thing Easy Keeping
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Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

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I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

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My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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