#sensation

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #sensation #thought #thwarted

The simplification of anything is always sensational. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #sensational #simplification

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

#awaken #quite #sensations #strange #town

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation. ↗

— Van Cliburn

#sensation #success

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#image #love #lust #sensation

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#burn #clueless #everything #feeling #going

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#best #grace #handed #look #only

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing