54 Quotes About Peculiar


  • Author Jelly Roll Morton
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    In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

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  • Author Flannery O'Connor
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    The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

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  • Author John Ruskin
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    Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

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  • Author Lytton Strachey
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    In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

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  • Author Helen Vendler
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    I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

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