“ The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. ”
- Kathleen Tierney Andrus- Copy
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“ This morning, I was told to accept a two-week unpaid suspension. During that time, I was to 'think about what this paper should be'. ”
- Jeff Koyen- Copy
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“ Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. ”
- Hugh Kingsmill- Copy
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“ I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of belief." A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there… ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values… ”
- Gilbert Adair- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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