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«It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.»
Author: Anatole Broyard | About: America and Americans, Literature | Keywords: American literature, nostalgia, paradoxes, with nostalgia
«Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life»
Author: Fernand Braudel | About: History | Keywords: contradictions, despite, framework, paradoxes, recapture, recaptured, relocated
«The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.»
Author: Ogden Nash (Writer) | About: Bed | Keywords: bundle, bundles, bundling, every night, Leave It, paradoxes, reluctance
«What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | Keywords: batteries, battery, crumble, crumbled, crumbles, crumbling, death knell, knell, knells, monstrous, paradoxes, resisted, ringing, swiftly
«This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.»
Author: Walter Lippmann (Journalist) | Keywords: compose, crowd, democratic, movement, paradoxes
«Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: caustic, handle, paradoxes, scorch, scorched, scorching, sear, seared, sears
«The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | Keywords: benighted, deplorable, fragile, Lent, novelty, paradoxes
«The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: acrobat, acrobats, paradoxes, rope, rope in, rope up, tight, tighter, verities, verity
«The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | Keywords: embryo, Embryos, exposed, grandiose, in embryo, paradox, paradoxes, pathos, thinker
«The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.»
Author: William Faulkner (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: court, Court jester, fabric, fabrics, jester, Jesters, Old Court, paradoxes, supposed, vicious
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