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"With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension."
Adrian McKinty
Best
Who
Ear
Fiction
"I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage."
Amy Purdy
Lost
Ear
Hearing
Left
"The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became."
Andrew Bird
Music
Everything
Kind
Ear
"The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately."
Anish Kapoor
Eye
Ear
Than
Instrument
"My English is good because I have a good ear."
Barbara Sukowa
Good
English
Ear
Because
"I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard."
Bill Dixon
Delay
Play
Ear
Make
"Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed."
Billy Collins
Music
Own
Results
Ear
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
Billy Wilder
Music
He
Ear
Van
Gogh
"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."
Blaise Pascal
Heart
Only
Ear
Because
"I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something."
Bob Dylan
Something
Going
Kind
Ear
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