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• The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you think you see something but you're not sure you actually saw it in the end. The way I get to these places is just practice, like a kind of meditation that shapes my brain.

  Dawn Lundy Martin

  Eye, Thinking, Meditation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

  Robin McKinley

  People, Stories, Way

  Robin McKinley (2011). “Spindle's End”, p.266, Random House

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• A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

  Theodor Haecker

  Sight, Hands, Wish

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• Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.

  David Lehman

  Hands, Your Side, Ideas

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

  Diane Lane

  Cutting, Action, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

  Taryn Simon

  Beautiful, Photography, Quality

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• I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

  Jane Siberry

  Together, Complicated, Pops

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• Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

  Brad Paisley

  Life Lesson, Guitar, Practice

  Brad Paisley, David Wild (2012). “Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Soul, Vision, Trying

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Night, Childhood

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Teaching, Self

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Ideas, Sickness

  Letter to Mrs. Blumberg, September 27, 1977.

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• On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.

  Gregory Pardlo

  Teaching, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

  Alvin Lee

  Play, People, Crowds

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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• And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

  Donna Tartt

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Believe, Reality

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.

  Julian Barnes

  Focus, Fiction, May

  Julian Barnes (2008). “Nothing To Be Frightened Of”, p.157, Random House

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• If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and accordingly attempts to blur our vision. He lies. He shades and obliterates truth. He makes evil look good and good look unenlightened and unsophisticated. Make no mistake about it: Lucifer will do anything to derail, disappoint, dishearten, discourage, and deceive us—and particularly those who have made and are seeking to keep sacred covenants. His motives are entirely self-centered, selfish, destructive, and evil.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mistake, Lying, Selfish

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

  Marisha Pessl

  Past, Light, Color

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• I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

  Arthur Darvill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

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• This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Feelings, Trying

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• I like to think there's still right and wrong. We blur that a lot. When we celebrate misdeeds instead of portraying them as missteps, we've lost our way a little bit.

  Mark Schwahn

  Thinking, Littles, Way

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