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There’s a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how  (Familiar Quotes) Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can  (Familiar Quotes) Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development  (Familiar Quotes) ... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one’s mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time  (Familiar Quotes) A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again  (Familiar Quotes) There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him  (Familiar Quotes) Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother’s hatred still comes as a surprise  (Familiar Quotes) The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen  (Familiar Quotes) The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new  (Familiar Quotes) I don’t think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that’s where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies  (Familiar Quotes) All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer  (Familiar Quotes) A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest  (Familiar Quotes) We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar  (Familiar Quotes) To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state  (Familiar Quotes) Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it  (Familiar Quotes) The effects of good music are not just because it’s new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it  (Familiar Quotes) The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity  (Familiar Quotes) Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy  (Familiar Quotes) I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people  (Familiar Quotes) I’m familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation  (Familiar Quotes) The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places  (Familiar Quotes) And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep  (Familiar Quotes) Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet  (Familiar Quotes) The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life  (Familiar Quotes) I didn’t have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it’s fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy  (Familiar Quotes) She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still  (Familiar Quotes) I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth  (Familiar Quotes) At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you - or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life  (Familiar Quotes) The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange  (Familiar Quotes) Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light  (Familiar Quotes)
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