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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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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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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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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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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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.
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I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!
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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".
