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All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from an immense and almost frightening tradition; they accept that tradition or they fight against it, it inhabits them, it is their familiar and their succubus. Why write, if everything has, in a way, already been said? Gide observed sardonically that since nobody listened, everything has to be said again, yet a suspicion of guilt and superfluity leads the European intellectual to the most extreme refinements of his trade and tools, the only way to avoid paths too much traveled. Thus the enthusiasm that greets novelties, the uproar when a writer has succeeded in giving substance to a new slice of the invisible; merely recall symbolism, surrealism, the ‘nouveau roman’: finally something truly new that neither Ronsard, nor Stendahl , nor Proust imagined. For a moment we can put aside our guilt; even the epigones begin too believe they are doing something new. Afterwards, slowly, they begin to feel European again and each writer still has his albatross around his neck.


Julio Cortázar


#literature #novelty #writing #imagination

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.


Edward Norton


#i #i do #just #lot #novelty

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.


Thomas Hood


#clamor #later #namely #novelty #public

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


#genius #novelty #poetry #truth #truths

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage.


Gene Edward Veith


#novelty #worship #music

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.


Andrzej Wajda


#budget #committed #filmmaking #find #funds

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.


Marilyn Hacker


#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.


Lawrence Hargrave


#come #describe #exhibit #experiments #explain

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.


Owen Hart


#by the time #changed #child #fed #gauntlet

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.


Tom Baker


#good #good drama #i #interested #looking






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