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• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  Dana Spiotta

  Memories, Dysfunction, Needs

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• Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Expectations, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

  Hannah Arendt

  Real, Sight, Quality

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  Denise Caruso

  Government, Hands, Practice

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• The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

  Robert Schumann

  Poet, Easier, Impression

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  People, Tasks, Sometimes

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• You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Labels

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• In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality.

  Robert Moss

  Life, Reality, Order

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.111, New World Library

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• Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

  Gary Steiner

  Animal, Rights, Language

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

  Crispin Glover

  Cinema, Subjectivity, Film

  "Crispin Glover Speaks... Reluctantly". Interview with Matt Zoller Seitz, www.nypress.com. May 21, 2002.

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• Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Objectivity, Blind

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• Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

  Egon Friedell

  Art, Reality, Light

  Egon Friedell (1953). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war”

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• The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Mind, Subjectivity

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, Understanding

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• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

  Edith Head

  Jobs, Thinking, Clothes

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external.

  Josh McDowell

  Self, Gone, Truth Is

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• 'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

  Taylor Momsen

  Live Life, Darkness, Viewpoints

  "Dirty Pretty Thing: Taylor Momsen". Interview With Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2010.

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• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Actors, Creation

  "General Aspects of Dream Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

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• Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more than the subjective reproduction of the regularity according to the law of natural phenomena. On the other hand, this reproduction is only possible by means of the will that controls the concatenation of ideas.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1912). “An Introduction to Psychology”

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• The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

  Stuart Hameroff

  Drug, Body, Awareness

  "Can Science Explain the Soul?" by Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I have you – a god of mixed heritage – on an expedition that could unleash the Destroyer from her hole. Arikos, another god, on the same team who is masquerading as a human. The demigod Solin, who I have to ride herd on constantly anyway, who gave them their permits. Megeara, a human who is sensitive and subjective to the voices of the gods. And the pissed-off goddess, Apollymi, who will do anything to be free, and once free wouldn’t hesitate to destroy every one of us. I can’t imagine why I’m concerned over this, can you? (ZT)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Team, Voice, Pissed Off

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• Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Spiritual, Atheist, Reality

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• The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Views, Admitting

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

  Theodor Adorno

  Cutting, Differences, People

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.77, Stanford University Press

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