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Letter "P" » primitive
«In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.»
«It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back»
«I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.»
Author: John Mortimer
| About:
Censorship,
Fear,
Law and lawyers,
Writers
| Keywords:
censorship, dread, fearful, flattered, in a way, primitive, print
«In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Genius,
World
| Keywords:
evolution, excepting, geniuses, one species, preside, presided, presiding, primitive, There exists
«Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of ''quaint,'' and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.»
«It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.»
«Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Space,
Time
| Keywords:
bodily, engenders, forgetfulness, primitive, space like, surroundings, unattached
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
accounts, and so forth, Body of, concerning, deities, distinguished, heroes, invents, mythologies, mythology, origin, primitive
«One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have»
«One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberate, farther, hears, howls, orderly, primitive, shiver, shivering, shivers, sinks, supernatural, supernatural being, terror
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