#conventions

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

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But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. ↗

— William Shatner

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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. ↗

— Paul Signac

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Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. ↗

— Bryan Singer

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I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion. ↗

— Julia Stiles

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ↗

— Robert Henri

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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#shocks #today #tomorrow

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

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