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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

~Abbas Kiarostami

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Appropriate Cried Family Family Values Feeling Finally Grasped Liberals Own Popular Purposes Rhetoric Strength Symbolism Values

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

~Cyril Connolly

Topics: Art Grasped Journalism Literature Once Read Something Twice Will Writing

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In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.

~Dave Cooper

Topics: Drawing Form Grasped Never Really School

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I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.

~David Zayas

Topics: Awkwardness Believe Directed Film French Grasped Interesting Intrigued Just Me Original Really Saw Very Wrote I Believe

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Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

~Deborah Sampson

Topics: Awe Bands Brook Burst Control Could Custom Deny Enthusiasm Frenzy Grasped Held Length May Natural No Control Opportunity Privilege Say Seemed Sex Stealth Tyrant Which World Wrought You

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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

~Denis Kearney

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

~Diane Arbus

Topics: Action Contemplation Cutting Cutting Edge Edge Grasped Hand Mind Only World

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Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

~Ed Oxenbould

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