#curiosity

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. ↗

— Anne Rice

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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ↗

— James Stephens

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Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

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