Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement."
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Pavement
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Lewis Mumford
Philosopher, Author
"He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-"
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"Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet."
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"Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."
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"He's out of his depth on a wet pavement."
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"Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."
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"And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart."
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"She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement."
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