William Shenstone Quotes
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.
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Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
