Novelty quotes
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"Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours."
"If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance."
"Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved."
"What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood."
"Novelty in all things is charming."
"What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?"
"Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra."
"The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty."
"I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop."
"As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility."
"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon."
"As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified."
"Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation."
"It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most."
"Novelty is both delightful and deceptive."
