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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.


Paul Tournier


#more #our #refined #subtle #vulnerable

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.


Mark Twain


#keeps #kind #parrot #person #quite

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.


Gaston Bachelard


#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.


Della Reese


#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.


Thomas Mann


#clever #healthy #idea #illness #making

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.


William Empson


#off #put #refined #seems #someone

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.


Mark Bittman


#bottles #calories #cans #carbohydrates #coke

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.


Benjamin Haydon


#common #doing #done #faculties #genius

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.


Emma Willard


#boarding #boarding school #conversation #daughter #expected

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






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