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Robert Penn Warren

“. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important.”

Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
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