Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
Harold Bloom
Related Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due t... SIMONE WEIL It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at t... HANS JONAS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Success is survival. LEONARD COHEN The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts a... ANDREW CARNEGIE Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion ALBERT EINSTEIN It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or ... ASHWIN SANGHI History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the presen... HENRY FORD Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the... CARLOS SANTANA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ALBERT EINSTEIN What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms. JACINTA MPALYENKANA In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the pr... ANDREI TARKOVSKY The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so... ANN OAKLEY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now EUGENE O'NEILL There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. EUGENE O'NEILL I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket HAROLD BLOOM But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least,... LAWRENCE LESSIG The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w... YODA Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment. J.R. RIM Dwelling in the PAST is like jumping from a vertiginous height and landing on a bottomless pit… a ... HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Who is not bending the rules, Chinese companies or otherwise? Everyone is doing it. XIAO QIANG Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN We can only be HAPPY in the present. Not. In the Past. Or. The Future. LORRIN L. LEE Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish... THOMAS MOORE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL These tenses--past, present and future--are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. Tha... OSHO [CHANDRA MOHAN JAIN] The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited. UNKNOWN Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI In African countries, there is no tradition of science academies being trusted or used. It is a tigh... WIELAND GEVERS See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit... TERRY TEACHOUT Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state,... BOBBY SCOTT To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen... BO BENNETT Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet. ANDREW PETERSON The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to ... BEN FOSTER And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same ti... RéMY DE GOURMONT For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad pa... CLARE BALDING I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we eit... HAROLD BLOOM Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel p... AMOS OZ Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. MONICA RAYMUND In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distingui... DAVID RICARDO The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th... ALFRED WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Don't try to bring about darkness on a Monday
Don't let a Tuesday go thirsty
Don't show temper to a ... APURVA GAGLANI If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting t... TOBE HANSON Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. BLAISE PASCAL Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu... JOHN F. KENNEDY Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the fu... JOHN F KENNEDY The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then p... ANDREW SOLOMON Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for... M. H. ABRAMS The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. T... B. R. AMBEDKAR To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Life is a predicament which precedes death. HENRY JAMES We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul... GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything. BEN OAK The only difference between a weed and a flower is survival skill. HENRY BUELL The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. CHARLES BARKLEY The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. CHARLES BARKLEY WE ARE ALIVE IN THE PRESENT, EVERYTHING ELSE IS PAST OR FUTURE ! DR.PRASAD RAJHANS You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb... WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS
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