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Sense Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
- The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind…
- There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners…
- There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be…
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden