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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist

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"You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other."

Literature Form Bother

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Saul Bellow Novelist

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"... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence."

Form Influence Fellows

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk

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"Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness."

Religious Form Consciousness

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Sean Lennon Musician

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"I like music because it's the only invisible art form."

Art Form Invisible

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

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"The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself."

Form Common Despair

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Robert Morgan Poet, Novelist

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"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."

Facts Form Rhyming

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer

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"Teaching is, after all, a form of show business."

Teaching Form Shows

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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"In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless."

Form Fine Gross

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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"Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya."

Names Space Form

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

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"Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end."

Ends Form

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L. Ron Hubbard Author

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"Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future."

Giving Imagination Form

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor

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"Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years."

Years Order Form

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Haruki Murakami Writer

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"No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with."

Matter Might Form

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor

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"You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven."

Government Form Eleven

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer

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"War is the most readily available form of chaos."

War Form Chaos

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist

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"Art is nothing without form."

Art Form Art Is

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Franz Kafka Writer

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"The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road."

Travel Form Despair

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation."

Form Imitation Acquiring Knowledge

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker

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"National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt."

Moments Form Discord

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John F. Kennedy Politician

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"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."

Form Vices Miscellaneous

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