“… and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?”

— Donna Tartt , book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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American writer 1963

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The things that always seem to work are the things that any magician can duplicate. Randi's quite right to point that out. But that's not because I'm doing a conjuring trick. You'd think that whatever causes these things to happen doesn't want them to be proved.”

Uri Geller (1946) Israeli illusionist

Colin Wilson, The Geller Phenomenon (1976), page 120.

“A thing isn't quite real until you name it.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"

“And my intention is to try to form a collection of many such things, which would not be quite unworthy of the title 'heads of the people.' By working hard, boy, I hope to succeed in making something good. It isn't there yet, but I aim at it, and struggle for it. I want something serious, - some thing fresh - something with soul in it! Forward - forward”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands, 3 Jan. 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 257), pp. 20-21
1880s, 1883

“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet

"God's Grandeur," line 10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

“If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "The Unstoppable Michael Douglas" in The Christian Science Monitor (15 October 1996) https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1015/101596.feat.film.1.html

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

“There is no such thing as a good or bad organizational structure; there are only appropriate or inappropriate ones.”

Harold Kerzner (1940) American engineer, management consultant

Source: Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (1979), p. 93 (2e ed. 1984) cited in: Susan Freese (1989) Child sexual abuse: impact and aftershocks. p. 130 - Pagina 190

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Jack, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

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