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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary… — Margaret Sanger
If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is… — Marjane Satrapi
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. — William Tecumseh Sherman
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language.… — Zadie Smith
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. — Susan Sontag
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery,… — Ivanka Trump
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. — James Wolcott
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I… — Douglas Rushkoff
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not… — Margaret Sanger
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which… — Marcel Proust
Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace… — Laurence Sterne
Take your sensibility and use it as a vision — George Eliot
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as… — Northrop Frye
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and… — Janet Fitch
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you… — Anne Lamott
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa

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