#peculiar

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. ↗

— Carly Simon

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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. ↗

— Georges Seurat

#character #depends #drawing #each #only

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. ↗

— Tim Allen

#hateful #levels #loving #mean #metaphysical

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#acts #does #every #fate #his

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#involves #love #misunderstanding #peculiar #understanding

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. ↗

— John James Audubon

#best way #birds #could #day #gave

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#chair #felt #haven #living #living room