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The Two Most Engaging Powers Of An Author Are To Make New Things Familiar, And Familiar Things New.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things
familiar, and familiar things new.
-- Johnson
Related:
New order!...That's another familiar name for the 'improvement' of people who get in your way.
-- B.F. Skinner Walden Two...
Money brings about a new class of relative, formerly the unknown, now the familiar.
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
Not long ago, a teaching hospital installed a computer to interview patients visiting its Gynecology department.
Apparently several of the programmers were not familiar with Medicine....
All things are the same,--familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance.
All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried....
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the ligh
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it....
New dating service: Things that bump in the night.
Things are more like they used to be than they are new.
Men are better when they are old; things when they are new.