"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar……" — Carson McCullers

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling… — Diane Ackerman
• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar… — Enid Bagnold
• I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar… — Alan Ball
• The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was… — Eric Bana
• Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call… — Antonio Banderas
• Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which… — Charles Baudelaire
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
• Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
• But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one… — Bono
• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a… — Carrie Brownstein
• The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are… — William S. Burroughs

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