#familiar things

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all. ↗

— Donald Judd

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