- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curiously Quotes
On the odd, unexpected connections people notice in their own work.
These curiously quotes capture that specific feeling of noticing an unexpected connection, whether it's between jazz and 20th-century America, or between one writer's work and another's.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd for me to compare my stuff to Lee Child's, because I'm such of fan of his, and also because it's curiously something I never did until I kept hearing about our protagonists' similarities.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas - four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
- General Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
- Far East
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- Nov 07, 2020