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“... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.”

Firsts Persons Real Character Feelings Joy Understanding Emotion Fiction Essentials Elements Improvement Novelists Misfortunes Evoke Factual Real Person Simplification Suppressing

Author:Marcel Proust

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”

Thinking Mind Together Used Simple Emotion Consciousness Color Speech Perception Ordinary Weight Embrace Complexes Including Affair Sensations Items Texture Psychologist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.”

People Knows Ends Emotion Half Power Dying Conscious Property Terror Despise Twisted Freeze Money Power

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.”

Poetry Effort Emotion Written Poet Greed Useless Excess Zeal

Author:Anne Sexton

“Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.”

Running Emotion Watches Heard Including Scream Toes Caution Wraps Mummy

Author:Anne Sexton

“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”

Long Real Humanity Language Sound Emotion Doubt Color Goes On Intellectual Imitation Real Things Recreation

Book:Writings, 1932-1946

Source: Writings, 1932-1946

“[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

Children Real Play Emotion Serious Amount Opposites Psychoanalysis

Book:Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”

Giving Reason Passion Emotion Checks Reins

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.”

Art Important Artist Certain Order Emotion Quality Sacrifice Illusion Aim Details Poetic Inferiors

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.”

Life Ideas Self Next Emotion Modern Blame Disturbing Modern Life Fright

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.”

Men May Ends Sex Emotion Gay Gay Men

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The feminization of America has made emotions sacrosanct while condemning as cold and unfeeling rigorous concepts such as duty andhonor. Propelled by incessant hosannas to woman's "finer" this and "softer" that, we make emotional decisions instead of ethical ones and then congratulate ourselves for having "heart.”

Heart Made America Decision Emotion Feminism Emotional Duty Cold Concepts Ethical Condemning Incessant Unfeeling

Author:Florence King

“We think by feeling. What is there to know?”

Thinking Knows Feelings Emotion Knowledge

Book:On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose

“The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.”

Heart Poetry Passion Emotion Poet Fortune Affection Warm Charm Over It Sentiments Sublime Lively Disdain Love And Friendship Magnanimity

Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .”

Thinking Moments Facts Emotion Spring Bases Add Musical Patterns Composer Listeners Incapable Anticipate

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

Art Real Desire Actors Acting Emotion Please Essence Dramatic Faculty Feminine Defects Facility Provinces Assimilation Artifice

Book:The Art of the Theatre

Source: The Art of the Theatre

“A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.”

Able Emotion Successful Profit Practicals Rational Traders

Author:Monroe Trout

“Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.”

Humans Sometimes Enough Play Film Emotion Easier Smart Clean Excess

Author:Kim Cattrall

“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”

Emotion Objects Germany

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.”

Needs Feelings Ability Emotion Talking Teacher Teaching Emotional Skills Comfortable Including Literacy Emotional Literacy

Author:Daniel Goleman

“When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.”

Children Important Feelings Natural Emotion Our Children Important Things

Author:Fred Rogers

“I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.”

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight”

Fighting Emotion Logic Knives Calculators

Author:Josh Sundquist

“Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.”

Believe Desire Faith Humanity Simple Emotion Ambition Believe In Me Invasion

Author:Daniel Mainwaring

“Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.”

Knows Doe Matter Choices Emotion Emotional Products Connections Loyalty Rational Brands Consumers Marketers Emotional Connection Rational Thought Brand Loyalty

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.”

Names Emotion Company Cold Hot Decades Debate Reactions Sparks Contests Good And Bad Controversial Electoral Process Hot And Cold

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

Ifs Said Character Song Emotion Involved Musician Singing Realistic Portraying Blues Music

Author:Jack White

“I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.”

Art Acting Emotion Incredibles Filmmaking Not Interested Outlets Being Famous Expressing Emotions

Author:Ellar Coltrane

“I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.”

Way Facts Use Imagination Interesting Emotion Fiction Novel Subjects Picks Exploration Constructs My Imagination Really Interesting

Author:Melanie Benjamin

“There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.”

Humans Feelings Emotion Weak Stronger Vampire Arrogant Submit

Author:Richard Sammel

“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.”

Ifs Character Hands Running Emotion Surface Fake

Author:Jackie Earle Haley

“I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.”

Way I Can Emotion Complexity

Author:Temple Grandin

“You don't have to be kind. You have to be calm. Once you start showing that people can affect your emotions, then you obviously don't have that much power. If a stewardess can affect your emotional life, then you don't have any power in life and you just showed your whole hand.”

People Ifs Kind Whole Hands Emotion Emotional Calm Be Kind Emotional Life Stewardess

Author:Vincent Kartheiser

“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.”

People Powerful Emotion Leader Class Middle Periods Empathy Educated Revolutionary Middle Class Communist Very Powerful Powerful Emotions

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story.”

Way Want Feels Stories Feelings Emotion Drama Frightened Cathartic

Author:Danny Boyle

“Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.”

People Actors Deals Emotion

Author:Park Chan-wook

“You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.”

Ifs Want Emotion Connections Investing Personal Connection

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.”

“The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.”

“The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.”

Stills Different Hands Eye Emotion Fire Pieces Clothes Picks Coats Vans Printed Glamour Colorful Trenches Gilded Trench Coats

Author:Suzy Menkes

“Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.”

Mean Feelings Emotion Who You Are Constant Wide Range Range Of Emotions

Author:Janet Gonzalez-Mena

“Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.”

Knows Children Love Is Emotion Behavior Truth Love

Author:Andrew Vachss

“I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”

Ifs Emotion Kindness Divine Return Horse Mirrors Curiosity Love And Respect Respect And Kindness

Author:Allan Hamilton

“Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.”

Mind Soul Emotion Practice Meditation Glory Shining

Author:Genevieve

“Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.”

Persons Next Emotion Mood Storytelling Chords Progression Djs

Author:Richie Hawtin

“People read fiction for emotion-not information”

People Emotion Fiction Information

Author:Sinclair Lewis

“ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director Gray uses the conventions of romantic melodrama.”

Way Use Film Emotion Directors Gray Intensity Sincerity Conventions Melodrama

Author:A. O. Scott

“Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.”

Emotion Taught Sincere Larger Than Life

Author:Reba McEntire

“The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”

World Emotion Half Hell Wasting Time Phony

Author:Richard Yates

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