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Consistency Quotes (page 25)

A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. Walker Percy
What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a... Julio Cortazar
Honore de Balzac quote: "I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist..."
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. Honore de Balzac
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians. Steven Pinker
So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw...As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark Quentin Crisp
Eugene Ionesco quote: "A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of..."
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. Eugene Ionesco
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to..."
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jack Kerouac quote: "Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream Jack Kerouac
take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool... Jonathan Swift
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Ronald Reagan
Carl Jung quote: "The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of..."
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. Carl Jung
Henry B. Adams quote: "[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting..."
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry B. Adams
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. George Orwell
I took everybody, including the dog, for a ride, and we went around the block four or five times, congratulating one another upon our new mobility. I discovered that my former casual attitude of timid acquiescence was not consistent with someone who could drive a car, so I fell gradually into a new personality, swashbuckling and brazen, with a cigarette usually hanging out of one corner of my mouth because I had to keep both hands on the wheel. Shirley Jackson
Murakami: Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - T believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible. Haruki Murakami

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