"Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species."

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Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.19, Yale University Press

Gordon Allport

#Science Quotes #Syntax Quotes #Violation Quotes

“Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.”
“Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.”
“Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.”
“By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.”
“When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.”
“Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.”
“I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!”
“Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150

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