Back Again Quotes - Page 11

• Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

  Ruth First

  Race, Land, Cities

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• When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

  Aristotle

  Taken, Unjust, Stones

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Pain, War

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• One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Cutting, One Day, Sake

  Thomas Bernhard (1991). “On the mountain: rescue attempt, nonsense”

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• It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.

  Virgil

  Air, Steps, Hell

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• I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

  Henry Miller

  Broken Heart, Past, Thinking

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

  Eric Roberts

  Russia, Namesake

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• You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Ideas, Machines

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.

  Johnny Cash

  New Year, Song, Years

  Source: wrvo.org

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