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I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

E. L. Doctorow

Wish, Going Away, Radicalism

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Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Stephen Jay Gould

Two, Three, Evolution

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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Helen Rowland

Maturity, Men, Halos

Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

Ted Allen

Wine, White, Cake

"Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

Edgar Cayce

Garden, Color, Games

Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Robertson Davies

Fashion, Smart, People

Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Herb Caen

Land, Cities, Two

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It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

Marlo Thomas

Years, Two, Track

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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

William Saroyan

Writing, Done, Way

William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Donna Tartt

Thinking, Literature, Murder

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Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

Minnie Driver

Baby, Looks, Obsessed

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

D. H. Lawrence

Discovery, Self, Penetrate

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Sara Sheridan

Writing, Long, People

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How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

Joyce Carol Oates

Children, Writing, Together

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Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

Robert Burchfield

Art, Wells, Illuminating

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It's fascinating how life works.

Henry Louis Gates

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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Zygmunt Bauman

People, Surround Yourself, Consumers

"Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2003.

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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

Stephen Bayley

Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

Dylan McDermott

Zuma, Different, Downtown

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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Smedley

Love You, Living Right, Awful

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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Pierre Salinger

Forever, President, Information

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I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Alexis Bledel

Thinking, Interesting, Getting Older

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I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban

Creating, Littles, Rooms

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

Ian Botham

Men, Way

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Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Julianna Baggott

Real, Men, Thinking

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