#convent

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #now #really #reasons #two

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#bound #convention #governments #implement #legally

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#audience #available #conventional #due #electronic

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. ↗

— Andre Breton

#easily #even #exaltation #experienced #feeling

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#bother #conventions #even #publishers #textbook

Conventionality is not morality. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#morality

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#became #business #center #chicago #convention

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗