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• Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Literature, Trouble

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.502

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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Criticism, Recluse

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

  Emma Goldman

  Home, Land, Tradition

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• My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Uncles, Father, Islands

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• People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

  Billy Graham

  New York, Thinking, People

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• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

  Ernst Haas

  Beautiful, Photography, Creativity

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• With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Past, Reality

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• For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Player, Views, Negative

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

  Herbie Hancock

  Oscars

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• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Painting, Intimate

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Inspiration, Home, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Waste, Courageous, Vain

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• Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians.

  Samuel Beckett

  Giving, Waiting For Godot, Magician

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Ignorance, Self, Order

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.275, Vintage

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• A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

  Mark Steyn

  Civilization, Islam, Dying

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Intellectual, World

  A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, www.orthodoxytoday.org. June 8, 1978.

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• When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

  Diablo Cody

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  "Running with Diablo". Interview with Matt Smith, www.citypages.com. December 26, 2007.

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• But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Coffee, Character

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• Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

  Martin Amis

  Fall, Firsts, Chaos

  "The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America". Book by Martin Amis, 1986.

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• Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

  Terry Pratchett

  Intelligent, People, Three

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Friday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

  Daniel Handler

  First Impression, Firsts, Wrong Impression

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, Series Of Unfortunate Events, www.ign.com. 1999.

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• Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

  John Barnes

  People, Giving, Useless

  "The Armies of Memory".

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