Walter Pater Quotes

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Walter Pater

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

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• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

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• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

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• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

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• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

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• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

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• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

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• Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

  

  Larry David
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• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
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• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

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• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

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• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

  

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• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

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• Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

  

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• I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

  

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• In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

  

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• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  

  Walter Pater
  • World
  • Failure
  • Eye