"We have a name for your disease. We……" — Sarah Waters
"We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy."
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37 Quotes by Sarah Waters
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There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
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I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
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Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
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Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt…
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
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It's a curious, wanting thing.
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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the…
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More Aesthetic Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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