#exceptional

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cat #exceptionally #good #live #long

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#chance #changed #character #convinced #exceptional