"The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect.……" — Dennis Lehane
"The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty."
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69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane
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Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside…
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He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead…
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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you…
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls…
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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
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Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad…
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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of…
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I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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More Awe Quotes
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of…
— Theodore Bikel
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
— William Blake
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do…
— David Bowie
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
— Sandra Bullock
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I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope…
— Sandra Bullock
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real…
— Nicolas Cage
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