Elaine Scarry Quotes
When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less but much more deeply than before".
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition.
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My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.
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When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less but much more deeply than before".
