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#variety

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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.


Maxine Hong Kingston


#difference #mad #only #over #people

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.


Bronowski


#balance #golden-mean #philosophy #science #thought

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.


Osbert Lancaster


#boredom #enthusiasm #much #occasioned #pointless

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.


Dee Dee Myers


#bill #clinton #disappointed #done #fall

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.


Alva Noto


#both #careful #certain #depth #each

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.


Ivor Novello


#believe #crude #cut #days #early

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.


Audrey Meadows


#handsome #men #most #only #robert

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.


Felix Mendelssohn


#essence #unity #variety

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.


George Stephen


#fan #fiction #hard #hard time #horror






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