"The more obscure our tastes, the greater the……" — Jennifer Donnelly
"The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius."
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106 Quotes by Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly has 106 quotes on this site.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it…
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but…
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I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse…
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and…
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.
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A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away…
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of…
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My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing…
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Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The…
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She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She…
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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