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The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Afford Art Cases Excursion Fine Fine Art Go Life Look Make Most Music Own Part People Problem Really Special The Problem With Way

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I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Been Before Disappointed Excursion Further Had Interior Inviting Less Me Proceed Still Sufficiently Termination Track

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The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: April Contained Excursion Horseback Journey June Made March May Mexico Months Most Narrative Originated Part Remarks Volume Were Which

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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Accepting Before Boy Captain Collecting Competing Date Destined Every Excursion Football Football Team Goddess Going Like Meant Night Prom Romantic Sacrifices Saturday Saturday Night Team Town

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I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.

~Emmanuelle Charpentier

Topics: After Excursion French Home Imagined Life My Life Rest Short Student Typical Work Would 1990S

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

~Eudora Welty

Topics: Excursion Go Joy Looking Same Sorrow You Your

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

~Franz Grillparzer

Topics: Another Art Differ Excursion Goal Journey Like Poetry Process Prose Purpose Same Science Token

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