Procrustean Quotes
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Procrustean Quotes & Sayings
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the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
— Camille Paglia
The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.
— Vina Delmar
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
— Jack Kerouac
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
— Felix Frankfurter
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
— Libba Bray
Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?
— Crissi Langwell
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
— Vanna Bonta
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
— Jasper Fforde
The curse and blessing of the human race was its chumminess.
— Stephen King
That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
— Paul Tsongas
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
— Saint Augustine
The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear - the simplification that distorts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon