Quotations About / On: TOGETHER

  • 41.
    A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
    (Whitney Balliet (b. 1926), U.S. author. Dinosaurs in the Morning, introductory note (1962).)
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  • 42.
    Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
    Lying together there goes back so far,
    An emblem of two people being honest.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Talking in Bed.")
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  • 43.
    If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
    (Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Following the Equator, ch. 46 (1897).)
  • 44.
    There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
    (Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. "New York," America (1986, trans. 1988).)
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  • 45.
    The business of love is
    cruelty which,
    by our wills,
    we transform
    to live together.
    (William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. The Ivy Crown (l. 38-42). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
  • 46.
    The blue and the gray. Let us march together beneath the star- spangled banner.
    (Laurence Stallings (1894-1968), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Judge William Pitman Priest (Charles Winniger), The Sun Shines Bright, as a former Confederate soldier, speaking at the encampment of the town's Union veterans (1953). Based on stories "The Sun Shines Bright," "The Mob from Massac," "The Lord Provides" by Irwin S. Cobb.)
  • 47.
    Civilisation is hooped together, brought
    Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
    By manifold illusion....
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "XII. Meru.")
  • 48.
    Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country.
    (Winnie Mandela (b. 1934), South African political leader. Speech in black townships. Quoted in Guardian (London, April 15, 1986).)
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  • 49.
    To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc. 1, l. 143-4. Amazed that Titania makes love to him.)
  • 50.
    Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
    Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
    The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. The Dalliance of the Eagles (l. 1-3). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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