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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  War, Stupid, Long

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Dust, Order

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• I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Sobriety, Like Me

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.607, Xist Publishing

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• I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.

  Simon R. Green

  Baseball, Healing, Bats

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.15, Penguin

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Cherries, Flakes

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• When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Writing, Painting, Film

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• The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.

  Erich Segal

  People, Illusion, Hiding

  Erich Segal (2015). “Doctors: A Novel”, p.424, Bantam

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• When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

  Orson Scott Card

  Drunk

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.124, Macmillan

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• When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

  Cesar Pelli

  School, Design, Architecture

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• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  Adam Kluger

  School, World, Sides

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• The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Inspiration, Journey

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

  Bob Colacello

  Italian, Thinking, People

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• The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Mind, Ingredients

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Life, Success, Science

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• I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

  Brendan Coyle

  School, Thinking, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

  May Sarton

  Looks, Were Meant To Be, Meant To Be Alone

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is
  innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk,
  talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends,
  even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or
  remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written
  language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and
  skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to
  have evolved.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Reading, School

  "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Age

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

  Petra Haden

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Book, Thinking

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• As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

  LeCrae

  Writing, Skills, Rhyming

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• I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

  Tilman J Fertitta

  Play, Musical, Sticks

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• There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

  Henry Reed

  Distance, Years, Judging

  1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

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