Acute Quotes

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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and… — Wallace Stevens
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. — Fareed Zakaria
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. — Geoff Mulgan
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. — Donna J. Haraway
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is… — Charlotte Bronte
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâˆ’one that everything afterward savors of antiâˆ’climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose itâ€™s an early… — Eudora Welty
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair. — Holly Black
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with… — Elizabeth Gaskell
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill… — Jeffrey Eugenides
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an… — John Fante
Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me… — Jean Genet
It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond… — May Sarton
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. — Gary Zukav
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what… — Charlotte Bronte
Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute… — William S. Burroughs
Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh,… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise… — Barbara Kingsolver

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