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I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Conventional Each Eccentric Felt Got Married Maybe More Other Out Over Person Putting Quieter Reaction Seemed Talk Things Time Unconventional Were

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I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

~Alexandra Fuller

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We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.

~Alexandra Stoddard

Topics: Afraid Because Being Break Conventional Express Free High Life Live Our Raise Sights Simply Too Uniqueness Who Willing

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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

~Alfred Jarry

Topics: Any Beauty Blending Call Conventional Elements Every Inexhaustible Monster Original

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Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

~Alice S. Rossi

Topics: Ambivalence Challenging Conventional Dislike Disturbed Does Job Man Most Nothing Paying People Threatening Toward Values Want Well Who Work

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My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Conventional Definition Freedom Life Live Pirates Reluctance Ruled Still

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Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

~Anand Mahindra

Topics: Approach Conventional Future Ideally India Linear Make Placed Take Will Work

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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

~Andre Breton

Topics: Conventional Easily Even Exaltation Experienced Feeling Fleeting Freedom His Life Lived Moment New Other Produces Renounce Sense Something Than Then Who

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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Any Badge Big Big Deal Both Conventional Criticized Deal Either Form Free Free Verse Honour Lot Me Modern No Big Deal Poem Poems Poet Poets Strict Verse Very Ways Well Write

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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Big Big Deal Both Conventional Deal Either Form Free Free Verse Lot Me Modern No Big Deal Poem Poems Poets Strict Verse Very Ways Write

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