“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
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American writer 1900–1938Related quotes
“See also An Inspector Calls, I Have Been Here Before and Time and the Conways.”
Variant: Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Source: Julius Caesar
“Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.”
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
From Cosmic Religion: with Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), Albert Einstein, pub. Covici-Friede. Quoted in The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (May 30, 2000); Page 208, ISBN 0691070210
1930s
(19 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.
“Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”
Source: The Young Visiters (1919), Chapter 5
Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration," Boston Globe (26 February 2006)
2000s