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Familiarity Quote by Ian Bogost

“For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the…” quote by Ian Bogost — Download Open image

“For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.”

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Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

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You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much about it…

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I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives…

Samuel L. Jackson

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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

Alexander Agassiz

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Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

Winifred Kirkland

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

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