#cease

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#broken #cease #habits #life #only

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. ↗

— Hermann Broch

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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. ↗

— Eileen Caddy

#everything #get #inspiration #intuition #life

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ↗

— John Masefield

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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? ↗

— Charles Olson

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I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

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