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Well, Cruel Intentions is running fourth out of four at present.
September Books 18) The Golden Transcendence manjushra 2008
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The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result.
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The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result.
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I first tried to write Best Intentions from the four main characters’ points of view.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Plot, Mood and Character 2009
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Madam, (said he to his Wife, in a Voice nothing soften'd from that in which he had spoke to her before,) tho 'I am assur'd no Injury could here be done me, yet your Intentions were the same.
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"Intentions" one of the best critical expositions of the open secret of art ever written at all -- he never permits us for a second to lose touch with the wayward and resplendent figure, so full, for all its bravado, of a certain disarming childishness, of his own defiant personality.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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"Intentions," or the Comedies, or the Poems -- if the unthinkable thing could be done, and the emergence of this irresistible figure from behind it all could be drastically eliminated.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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Some of the most exquisite passages in "Intentions" refer to his poetry.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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"Intentions" are -- and fruitful as they are in affording us weapons wherewith to defend ourselves from the mob -- it is still well, it is still necessary, to place against them the great Da Vinci saying, "Nature is the Mistress of the higher intelligences."
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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I remember writing once in "Intentions" that the more objective a work of art is in form, the more subjective it really is in matter -- and that it is only when you give the poet a mask that he can tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions Frank Harris 1893
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