#novelty

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it. ↗

— John Crowley

#creativity #inspiration #novelty #security #self-indulgence

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#news #novelty #photography #shock #art

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Richard Adams

#belief #contingent #forces #heart #human

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time. ↗

— Jim Davis

#being #days #entire #feel #hasn

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. ↗

— Bil Keane

#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #cross #i

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#around #because #everyone #first #first time

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. ↗

— William Cowper

#earth #indulged #made #man #might

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#every #fleets #folly #home #loaded