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  • I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

    - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)
      House of Commons, 29 Mar.

  • Siendo el esperar sentada la forma ma  s muerta de la espera muerta, siendo el esperar la forma menos estimulante de muerte. To wait, seated in a chair, is the deadest form of dead anticipation, and waiting the most uninspired form of death.

    - Luisa Valenzuela
      Cambio de armas,'Ceremonias de rechazo' (translated as OtherWeapons,'Rituals of Rejection',1985).

  • For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

    -William Carlos Williams
      Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.

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