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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the w...

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society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never...

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We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of ne...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, the...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar t...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of nove...

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Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia Literaria Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4

If a queen comes to America, crowds fill the station squares, and attendant British journalists rejo...

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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple ol...

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He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessa...

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