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“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.”

Sometimes Faces Watches Objects Strange Personality Sight Contemplating Towers Statues Edifice Inanimate Objects

Book:Ninety-three

Source: Ninety-three

“I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.”

Firsts Believe Looks Mean Fall Personality Sight Falling In Love Don't Believe Love At First Sight Believe In Love Don't Believe In Love

Author:Nathan Sykes

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

“It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.”

World Two Values This World Personality Lovers Sight Relation Blind Endeavor Translate Unseen Tactile Two Personalities

Author:Lewis Mumford

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”

Writing Personality Eternity Sight Print Corny

Author:Virginia Woolf

“The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.”

Needs Children Persons Has Beens Desire Certain Personality Adults Sight Longing Favors Relate Civilized Persona Adapted Memories Dreams Reflections Unfulfilled Desires

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”

People Way Important Facts Success Loses Teaching Personality Treats Sight Stranger Live By Philanthropy Congratulations Family Friends Co Worker Coworker Yardsticks Strangers And Friends

Author:Barbara Bush