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«It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.»
Author: Carson McCullers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
coaster, have in mind, homesick, homesickness, Janus-faced, Janus, jukebox, Native American, nostalgia, roller, rollers, roller coaster, torn, trait, urge
«Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice»
«Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion»
«Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
appreciation, candor, cultivating, effectual, heroism, Pierre, referred, referred to, trait
«It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
lovers, object, The Lovers, trait
«I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.»
«'Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged»
«I am the family face; / Flesh perishes, I live on, / Projecting trait and trace / Through time to times anon, / And leaping from place to place / Over oblivion.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, flesh, leaping, live on, oblivion, perishes, projecting, The Family, trace, trait
«Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe»
«Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
American union, cleverness, infrequent, spiritualism, trait, Yankee
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