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Italo Calvino Quote: 'Politics is marginal, but literature moves ...'

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.


T. S. Eliot
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Lynn Swann
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Judith Butler
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
Aaron Sanchez
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
Mark Strand
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The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
Michael Eric Dyson
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If a thing moves, it lives.


Twyla Tharp
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I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.
Glenn Hubbard
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I'm okay with having bad dance moves.


Katy Perry
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Silence moves faster when it's going backward.


Jean Cocteau
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
Fernand Braudel
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With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.


Charles Kennedy
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.


George Ade
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?


Robin Williams
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.


Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.


Wayne Grady
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About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.


Herbert Hoover
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Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.
Simon Hoggart
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People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.


Lawrence Tierney
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