#constraint

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. ↗

— John Updike

#after #breath #constraints #develop #first

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#felt #i #never #social

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. ↗

— David Byrne

#constraints #intended #only #software #them

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. ↗

— Martin Yan

#being famous #constraint #famous #free #hindrance

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#been #conform #constraint #dictates #government

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#because #constraints #cut #going #ideas

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#expectations #facts #formal #journalism #kinds

At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless hairsplitting disputes, centered around this word and its close companion 'terror', as to which' stories may so be categorized and which may not, and whether or not descriptions such as weird or fantasy or macabre are preferable. The designation 'horror', with its connotations of revulsion, satisfies me no more than it does the purists but I believe that it is the only term which embraces all the stories in this collection and which succinctly suggests to the majority of readers what is in store for them. Horror then, in this instance, covers tales of the Supernatural and of physical terror, of ghosts and necromancy and of inhuman violence and all the dark corners and crevices of human belief and behavior that lie in between. ("An Age In Horror" - introduction) ↗

— Michel Parry

#genre-constraints #genre-fiction #horror #terror #age