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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father Ramon coughed. 'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.


Jacqueline Carey


#convent #dystopian #orphanage #toast #men

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.


Isaac Asimov


#convention #fame #science-fiction #self-referential #science

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.


Rebecca McKinsey


#convention #fashion #manners #rebellion #teenagers

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.


John Barrymore


#barrymore #conventional #dear #die #fellow

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.


Maria Bartiromo


#conventional wisdom #i #i can #manager #money

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.


Michael Beschloss


#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.


Ambrose Bierce


#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.


Kathryn Bigelow


#character #conventional #down #down the road #part

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.


Xun Zi


#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided






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