#peculiar

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. ↗

— Louise Brown

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Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#because #instantly #name #offer #peculiar

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#faith #level #logical #me #organization

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#american #common #common enemy #community #culture

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. ↗

— John Hurt

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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is. ↗

— Happy Chandler

#how #matter #much #peculiar #people

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

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