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When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

Jane Green

Sarcastic, Writing, Sarcasm

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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

Lewis Mumford

Running, Peace, Eye

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Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Susan Sontag

Ideas, Mold, Tools

Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Thomas Carlyle

Men, Anxiety, Excess

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

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An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

Aberjhani

Moving, Ignorance, Ideas

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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

Arthur Helps

Honesty, Hypocrite, Expression

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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

Henri Matisse

Color, Choices, Feelings

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

Jeremy Rifkin

Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

Francois Fenelon

Christian, Grace, Soul

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In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Godfrey Reggio

Real, Illiterate Person, People

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Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

Banana Yoshimoto

Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

Thomas Jefferson

Real, People, Purses

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As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Book, Thinking, Practice

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Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Shinichi Suzuki

Art, Men, Expression

Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music

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Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Billy Sheehan

Musical, Fans, Enjoy

"USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

Claire Danes

Growing Up, Understanding, Sound

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In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Brit Hume

Taken, America, Literature

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I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.

Toby Keith

Party, Independent, Years

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I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Lillian Hellman

Thinking, People, Guilt

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To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

Marcel Proust

Suffering, Needs, States

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bill Bryson

Food, Effort, Drug

Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

George Santayana

Men, Easy, Unhappiness

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

Barbara Hershey

Character, Thinking, People

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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

David Lehman

Writing, Soul, Reviews

David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

Frank Oz

Years, Nine, British

Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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