#peculiar

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#love #narration #peculiar #poetry #love

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

#brain #call #little #peculiar #privilege

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. ↗

— Carly Simon

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#almost #analysis #decided #go #i

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. ↗

— John Hurt

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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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