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It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be... Chuck Klosterman
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly. David Foster Wallace
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. Bertolt Brecht
Terry Prachett quote: "Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Prachett
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it.... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When the sex is persuasively rendered, it tends to read autobiographically, and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry. Jonathan Franzen
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them. Bertrand Russell
Chuck Klosterman quote: "Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people."
Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people. Chuck Klosterman
Nicole Kidman quote: "The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that..."
The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you. Nicole Kidman
David Foster Wallace quote: "Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the..."
Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move. David Foster Wallace
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel? Duane Michals
Charles Darwin quote: "Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the..."
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Charles Darwin
Richard Carlson quote: "we tend to focus on the annoying expectation"
we tend to focus on the annoying expectation Richard Carlson
It was her personal view that people who are overly choosy about the drinks they order in a bar tend to be sexually bland. She had no idea why this should be so. Haruki Murakami
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self. Barbara Kingsolver

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