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Richard Avedon quote: "There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All..."
There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
Orhan Pamuk quote: "Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate...."
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow. Orhan Pamuk
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities. Alain de Botton
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done. Irvine Welsh
So when some refer to Starbucks' coffee as an affordable luxury, I think to myself, Maybe so. But more accurate, I like to think, is that the starbucks experience - personal connection- is an affordable necessity. We are all hungry for community. Howard Schultz
Or more accurately, since we were in the plane, our shadows figured as well inside the shadow of the airplane skimming over mountain and field. Which would mean we too were imprinted into the earth. Haruki Murakami
That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms. Anne Rice
She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition. Janet Flanner
Sarah Silverman quote: "That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt..."
That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. Sarah Silverman
Stephen Jay Gould quote: "Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and..."
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. Stephen Jay Gould
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. John Steinbeck
I waver—in the dark—between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I’m unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together—and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman’s death. Roland Barthes
(The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me.) Elizabeth Gilbert
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun. C. S. Lewis

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