Narouze Quotes & Sayings

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task. — John Dewey

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. — Daniel Defoe

Oh shit, the jig is up! HIDE THE COOKIES! — Tara Sivec

You're weird,' he says.
Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, you're weird,' I say.
'Yeah, I know. Remember? That's how I can tell you're weird, too. — Amanda Maciel

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. — Jane Smiley

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind. — Jane DeLynn

Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. — Madeleine Peyroux

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust. — Anne Sexton

Many people today think that the Tea Act - which led to the Boston Tea Party - was simply an increase in the taxes on tea paid by the American colonists. That's where the whole "Taxation Without Representation" meme came from.

Instead, the purpose of the Tea Act was to give the East India Company full and unlimited access to the American tea trade and to exempt the company from having to pay taxes to Britain on tea exported to the American colonies. It even gave the company a tax refund on millions of pounds of tea that it was unable to sell and holding in inventory.

In other words, the Tea Act was the largest corporate tax break in the history of the world. — Thom Hartmann

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. — Charles Dickens

Every man's view is different; the wiser you are the wider your view become! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley