53 Quotes About Conventions

  • Author Jane Byrne
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    Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

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  • Author Ugo Betti
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    The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

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  • Author Peter Greenaway
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    I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

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