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“Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.”

Thinking Lines Half Design Originals Slips Accustomed Groove

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

Men Mind Has Beens Form Half Understood Originals Fantastic Unusual Dozen Novelty Admitting

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.”

Men Made Self Half Originals Filled Patterns Self Made Filled Up Self Made Man

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.”

World Poor Half Originals Imitation

Author:Luise Rainer

“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.”

Trying Heart Culture Lines Half Middle Missing Events My Heart Majors Originals Pops Mainstream Pop Culture Upbringing

Author:Michael De Luca

“Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.”

Half Praise Originals Busy Yearning Desirable Irresistible Translators

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.”

Thinking Knows Writing Two Helping Song Three Half Economy Figures Originals Nine Not Sure Help Me Length Verses Distillation

Author:J Tillman

“My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.”

Firsts Kids Half Band Originals Wicked

Author:Sebastian Bach

“So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.”

Ifs Two Ideas Reality Spiritual Sides Half Cutting Originals Concrete Bricks Particles Original Ideas

Author:Brad Warner

“I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.”

Years War States Lost Half Century Security Cold Years Ago Hot Originals Debt Republic National Security Reactionaries Truman Half A Century Harry Truman

Author:Gore Vidal

“There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.”

Knows Humans Persons Has Beens Said Two Human Beings Half Forever Female Originals Males Plato Other Half Did You Know Hermaphrodites

Book:Middlesex: A Novel

Source: Middlesex: A Novel

“We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on”

Half Alive Creation Miracle Originals Division Juice Acid Freshness

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.”

Source: The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON

“He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.”

Book Behinds Half Accepting Novel Paper Reflection Originals Guides Acceptable Pale Flawless

Author:Félix J. Palma

“If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is.”

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.”

“Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.”

Has Beens Half Rich Intellectual Originals Intelligence Thinker Veins Speculation Systematic

Book:Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.”

May Mean Force Easy Half Century Poet Originals Hills Strongest Visionaries Intricate Fading Dense Compact Very Popular

Author:John Hollander

“The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.”

Needs Character Half Our Lives Opposites Originals Suits Latter Worn Exhibits Exaggerated Often Is

Author:Marcel Proust

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