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Letter "A" » accidental
«The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Theater
| Keywords:
accidental, endlessly, fascinating, theater
«The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, features, reflects, serial, specimen, specimens, unrepeatable
«To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.»
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason
«Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fame,
Time
| Keywords:
accidental, artificial
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