Conventions Quote by James Frey Download Open image “You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.” — James Frey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventions
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“It is a touching story, and it is written more to convince than to tell. I am not convinced.” — James Frey Copy Share Image
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me. A place that I hate. I am alone. Alone here and alone in the world. Alone in my heart and… — James Frey Copy Share
He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have it, they make a decision to take it. If they take it too often, that process of decision making gets out of control, and if it gets far out of control, it becomes an addiction. At that point… — James Frey Copy Share
“I start to cry. Tears begin running down my face and quiet sobs escape me. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. — James Frey Copy Share Image
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial… — James Frey Copy Share Image
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it… — James Frey Copy Share Image
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we… — James Frey Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also drawn up… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. One of the things I'm really proud of is how much of a high-school… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern… — C. D. Innes Copy Share
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share
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