#diverted

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#diverted #emotions #i #longer #other

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. ↗

— John McCarthy

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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking. ↗

— Phaedrus

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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