#heighten

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#always #because #characters #communities #dramatic

The quality of life decreases with heightened security. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#heightened #life #quality #quality of life #security

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#also #am #aware #awareness #besides

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#came #contact #feeling #had #heightened

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

#heighten #i #make #order #our

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#external #heighten #imperfect #poetry #value

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#america #changes #democratic #example #free

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. ↗

— Gary Ross

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