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• The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

  Paul Hindemith

  Memories, Feelings, Reactions

  Paul Hindemith (1969). “A composer's world, horizons and limitations”

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• When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

  Melanie Martinez

  Song, Training, Wheels

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Baby, Art, Memories

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about the real thing is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

  Douglas Lain

  Memories, Real, Ideas

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• If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

  Michael Pollan

  Dirty, School, Dark

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

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• The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

  Thomas Szasz

  Victim, Martyr, Homosexual

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.169, Syracuse University Press

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• They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  People, Trying, Killers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

  Keith Crown

  Order, Ideas, Two

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• People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

  William Faulkner

  People, Devil, Glands

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

  Shawn Stockman

  Beautiful, Honesty, Pain

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• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  Laura Mvula

  Space, Creative, Church

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• How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Fear, Opportunity, Challenges

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• If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

  Eric Alterman

  Clever, Alarms, Doe

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.17, Penguin

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• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  Christina Aguilera

  Sexy, Thinking, Color

  "Sexy As Sin: Christina Aguilera Reveals Why She Finally Feels Sexy In Her Own Skin". Interview with Laura Schreffler, hauteliving.com. March 28, 2014.

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• You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.

  Julie Orringer

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good.And now, think why.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.

  Linda Gregerson

  Book, Soul, Quality

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• An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

  Susan Wiggs

  Heart, Past, Common Sense

  Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer by the Sea”, p.176, Harlequin

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• Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Speech, Moments, Grandeur

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.300, Random House

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• The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

  Debi Mazar

  Memories, Home, Heart

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• Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Giving, Feelings

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter (2000). “Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977”, ABRAMS

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• Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

  Dee Hock

  Lying, Belief, Clear

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• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Sky, Design

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