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«I am a deeply superficial person.»
«I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?»
«On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.»
«The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.»
«I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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disaster, entail, entailed, entailing, etch, etched, etching, etchings, improvement, output, photography, production, sheer, superficial, term, The Creation, watercolor
«It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Truth
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As of, in general, in particular, ore, ores, particular, richest, superficial
«Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
an explanation, considered, deep, explanations, mystical, superficial
«It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
deeper, qualities, soon, superficial, The Last Man
«The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlling, German, probity, rests, sincerity, sprightliness, steadily, superficial, the English, the French
«I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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abounding, abounds, accusation, accuses, all-around, ancient people, Buildings, corruption, keen, pervades, protected, scent, stench, stenches, superficial, The Sweet, undergraduate, Undergraduates, youthfulness
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