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• Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

  Dara Horn

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Giving, Effort, Grace

  Frederic Dan Huntington (1887). “Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem”

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Eye, Garden, Play

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• Im known for impressions and family stories.

  Jay Pharoah

  Stories, Known

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• I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Hate, Thinking, Very Good

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• There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Heart, People, Mind

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• When I first started doing stuff outside of Hot Chip, I got the impression that Joe Goddard was a bit concerned. But I said, "I really want to record these songs quickly and not turn them into dance music." And he was fairly supportive - maybe not wholly supportive. But then you learn that no one's about to quit the band, so it seems good and healthy.

  Alexis Taylor

  Song, Healthy, Supportive

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• One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Appearance, Mankind

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• The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Unity, Fiction, Sitting

  Edgar Allan Poe (2009). “Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.521, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ideas, Remembrance, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Play, Intellectual

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• Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

  Francoise Sagan

  Intuition, Ifs

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• A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Mind, Causes

  David Hume (2017). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.238, BookRix

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• Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

  Karl Kraus

  Greek, Age, Boyhood

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.

  Jessica Jung

  Thinking, First Impression, Friendly

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• Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a lasting impression that can bring more gratitude into the world-for children and adults.

  Janice Kaplan

  Motivational, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you

  Michael Ellsberg

  Doors, Essence, People

  Michael Ellsberg (2011). “The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful”, p.161, Penguin

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• The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.

  Jordan Peele

  Mom, White, Guy

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]

  Clint Eastwood

  Growing Up, Fun, Age

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Differences, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

  Mason Cooley

  Order, Giving, Comfort

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• It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  First Impression, Firsts, Sometimes

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• There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Eye, Errors, Views

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