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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

~Gary Ross

Topics: Around Change Complexity Contradiction Each Else Era Everyone False Fence Future Generation Generations My Generation Nostalgia Other Own Picket Put Really Scary Something Something Else Uncertain Up Will

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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

~Gavin O'Connor

Topics: False Feel Just Scenes You

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There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: About Always Comics Consequences Consider False Gives Intimacy Something You

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Beware Dangerous False Ignorance Knowledge More Than

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

~George Boole

Topics: Abstraction Converse Culture False Fatal Forms Growth Intellect Likely Many Masculine Most Perhaps Premature Prove

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Accusation Against Destruction Dungeons Duty False Frightened Government Let Us Neither Nor Our Ourselves Us

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Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life.

~George Packer

Topics: American American Life Center Economic False Finding Giving Hardships Life Lives Nomination Promise Reassuring Republican Restoration Seized Trump Voters While Whites Working-Class

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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Back Between Dates Dichotomy Distinction False Feud Fiction Genre Henry James Literary Literature Louis Robert Split Streams Stupid Totally Two Won

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

~George Sand

Topics: Accepted Adore Believed Blush Captured Deliberately Door Everything False Frantic Heart How Joy Once Reason Regret Shame Shown Sort Struggle Suffering Without

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

~George Santayana

Topics: False Hunger Philosophy Root Wisdom

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