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"Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal."
"We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity."
"Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!"
"She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability."
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together."
"Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control."
"I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and forms in all my work. Without telling everything that happened, they document all that remains most vivid."
"There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up."
"But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head."
"Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?"
"If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately"
"A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together."
"It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world."
"Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather."
"I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch"
"What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century."
"The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe."
"Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together."
"Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy."
"I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together."
