"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

Thought, Surrealism

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"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

Bryan Robson, English Athlete

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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Thought, Growing up, Television

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Eyes

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things-but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."

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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

Art

"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."

Learning

"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

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"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"

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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things-but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."

"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"

"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

"To photograph is to confer importance."

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."