#familiarity

Familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#contentment #familiarity #habit #long-term-relationships #love

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity. ↗

— David Knopfler

#certain #contemplation #enter #every #every time

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. ↗

— Timothy White

#breeds #complacency #familiarity #familiarity breeds #kind

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered