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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.


R. Buckminster Fuller


#conventional #conventional way #doing #fresh #just

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.


Christopher Lasch


#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.


Bill Laswell


#conventional #electronica #music #people #play

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.


Penelope Lively


#book #characters #contributed #conventional #different

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.


Gustav Mahler


#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.


Franz Marc


#conventional #created #everything #exterior #genuine

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.


Peter Mayhew


#conventional #doing #filming #forget #muppet

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.


Linda McCartney


#because #been #before #convention #ernest

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.


Lucy Maud Montgomery


#careful #conventional #depth #i #i am

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.


Andrew Motion


#big deal #both #conventional #deal #either






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