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“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

Trying Firsts Facts Found Taken Imagine Europe Performances London Naked Shocked Statues Ulysses Hawthorne

Book:The Last Novel

Source: The Last Novel

“To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.”

Found Behinds Taken Camps Seduction

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.”

Firsts Found Taken Victory Promise Prove Deliverance

Author:Rees Howells

“I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.”

School Found Taken Tough Mickey

Author:Mika

“Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.”

Knows Love Persons Soul Moments Found Lost Loses Love Is Taken Wounds Immortal Love Someone Incomplete

Author:Lin Yutang

“I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.”

Book Reading Found Taken Journey Masters Exciting Extraordinary Ecstatic Exciting Things Margarita

Author:Sienna Guillory

“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”

Humans Two Body Found Principles Taken Figures Holy Projects Perfection Circles Proportion Consideration Temples Squares Construction Principal Human Body

Author:Luca Pacioli

“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”

Found Causes Taken Humility Prejudice Envy Arrogant Modesty Positively Hurtful

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.”

Found Study Taken Labor Spells Manuals Invigorating Manual Labor

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]”

Found Taken Future Hunters

Author:Ovid

“And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!”

Ifs Courses Found House Taken Heard Week Empty Bottles Dozen Brandy

Book:Remembered Death

Source: Remembered Death

“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”

Men Able Found Heaven Taken Ems

Author:Mae West

“Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.”

People Two Found Taken Economic Investing Following Disaster October Two Days Prospects Thursday

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.”

Ifs Found Taken Truth Is Cost Welcome Isolated Reproach Inconvenience Entirety

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Ive taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and Ive actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.”

Believe Important Soul Helping Found Creative Taken Thoughtful Help Me Get Back Saturday Feeding

Author:Padmasree Warrior

“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.”

“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”

Two Character Lying Found Taken Speech Regard Speakers Superficiality

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“The other day the plane that Barack Obama was on had some mechanical difficulties and was forced to land. Well, the National Transportation Safety Board did an inspection on the plane, and you know what they found? The bolts on the plane were fine, but apparently Jesse Jackson had taken some of the nuts off.”

Knows Wells Found Taken Land Fine Difficulty Safety Barack Planes Boards Nuts Transportation Bolts Inspection

Author:Jay Leno

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

Ifs Doe Home Certain Found Hours Sun Taken Ready Return Amount Scene Method Following Fixed Rising Makers Fatigue Monotony Working Women

Author:Anna Brackett

“I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.”

Funny Found Fun Pay Known Marriage Taken Settling

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that you're too real. Your endeavors are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so for granted. You must begin to erase yourself.”

Littles Real Problem Found Taken One Day Drinking Mood Granted Endeavor Fog Erase Taken For Granted Personal History Too Real

Author:Carlos Castaneda

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