"Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form."
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"In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political."
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"No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things"
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"By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work."
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"Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it"
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"I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do."
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"My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!"
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"Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet."
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"I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it."
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"You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government."
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"Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it."
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"I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either."
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions."
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"More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason."
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"Coincidence is a spiritual pun."
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"...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition."
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"If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays."
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"Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition."
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"If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an effort,"to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them," apart, perhaps, from some circle of immediate associates."
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"Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition."
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