Polyphony Lit Quotes & Sayings

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise. — David Novak

I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue. — Dominic Peloso

It's in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp — Bill Johnson

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed. — Maya Angelou

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation. — Al Gore

It is true that getting into writing as a career can sometimes feel like you are trying to throw ten coins up in the air and have them all land on heads, — Jan Doncom

No," Hood said. He leaned over me to the desk and the odor of unwashed detective overlaid with cheap cologne almost made me gag. Hood scooped up the photos and straightened as he stuffed them back into the envelope. With Hood a few feet away from me once more, I managed to breathe again, and since my curiosity was coming to a boil, I used the breath for something practical. "They're all very nice pictures," I said. "But so what? — Jeff Lindsay

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only. — Barbara Mikulski