“In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.
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Though Rabinowitz muses that something like this would not only be impractical but also incite severe backlash.
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Richard Avedon considered Hepburn one of his muses in the 50s and the two maintained a close professional relationship.
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Instead, he muses, why not regulate as if all people need guns, everywhere?
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She and Balanchine parted ways in the early 50s, and he would have other muses, but Tallchief was the template for them all.
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Montesquieu had placed an invocation to the muses in the middle of the "Esprit des Lois."
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And who, then, is this divinely-gifted artist, this consecrated daughter of the muses?
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You must shut your heart against the Muses, and be content to feed your understanding with plain, houshold truths.
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All knowledge, all music of sound and of words, comes to men by their gift—those nine great sisters, the Muses.
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Laurence Sterne, like Shakespeare, was fostered by the muses on Parnassus.
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Muses
Nine goddesses of classical mythology who presided over learning and the arts. They were especially associated with poetry. Ancient Greek or Roman writers would often begin their poems by asking for the aid of the Muses in their composition.
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Writers and artists to this day speak of their “muse,” meaning their source of inspiration.