"Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already……" — Marina Warner
"Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear."
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17 Quotes by Marina Warner
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also…
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a…
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More Attraction Quotes
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
— Jane Austen
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
— Luke Bryan
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