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• I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

  E. M. Forster

  Humility, Two, Empathy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Strong, Men, Wrath

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Bullshit, Curiosity, Fascination

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Science, Firsts, Judgment

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• Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Moving, Mean

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• Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Loss, Self, Passing Moments

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• Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Loss, Sky

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Feet, Support, Compromise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Support, Reason

  "Mr. Mailer Concludes". Interview with Zachary Klein, zacharykleinonline.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

  John McPhee

  Writing, Order

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• Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

  Robert Henri

  Running, Art, Bridges

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• I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

  Jonathan Groff

  Laughter, Simple, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

  Edward Norton

  Heart, Leaves Of Grass, Disbelief

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• Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

  Chris Pronger

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance in a plot. It occurs through a suspension of the time-sequence; a mystery is a pocket in time, and it occurs crudely, as in "Why did the queen die?" and more subtly in half-explained gestures and words, the true meaning of which only dawns pages ahead. Mystery is essential to a plot, and cannot be appreciated without intelligence.

  E. M. Forster

  Queens, Marching On, Appreciate

  "Aspects Of the Novel".

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• Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  War, Moving, Air

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jun 20, 2011

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• RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Expectations, Done, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.776, Library of America

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• While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Iran, Europe, Games

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• The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Christian, Ideas, Perfect

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• Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

  Guy Finley

  Prayer, Real, Self

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