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«A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.»
Author: Augustine Birrell
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Reading
| Keywords:
bath, conspirator, conspirators, conventional, innovative, readers, relaxing
«Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
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conventional, doctrines, like it, Neptune, or else, repeat, say something
«As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.»
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
(Writer)
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careful, conventional, depth, originality, rule, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows, wasted
«In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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conventional, copyright, disguised, distinctive, elaborately, element, patented, pretending, work of art
«[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.»
Author: R. Z. Sheppard
| About:
Journalism
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«A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Religion
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awe, conventional, emerge, faiths, magnificence, modern science, reserves, revealed, revealed religion, reverence, sooner or later, stressed, tapped
«A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.»
«Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.»
«I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
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claustrophobic, conventional, I Tried, lockjaw, neck, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, The Others, varieties
«Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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beliefs, conventional, conventional wisdom, decisions, environment, ignore, limits, shape
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