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Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. — Berthe Morisot

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. — Tom Baker

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. — Homer

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it. — Wallace Stegner

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films. — Arin Paul

The truth may make you bitter; but it must make you better. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. — Muriel Barbery

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson

The new is a guest in the house of the old. — Marty Rubin

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. — Samuel Johnson

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean De La Bruyere

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere. — Jacques Monod

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world. — George Michael

Human nature is fond of novelty. — Pliny The Elder

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. — Henry Adams

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty. — Oscar Wilde

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. — Virginia Postrel

And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty. — Samuel Beckett

The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns. — C.S. Lewis

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me. — Abigail Washburn

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. — Thomas Carlyle

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. — Carl Rogers

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same. — Marlon James

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. — Abraham Maslow

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art. — Mat Kearney

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment. — Mikhail Lermontov

The word "innovate" - to make new - used to have chiefly negative connotations: it signified excessive novelty, without purpose or end. — Anonymous

Powerful men tire of their toys easily. And the novelty of a pet doesn't last forever. After a while even the prettiest things become ordinary. — Kate Jarvik Birch

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy. — Vincent Of Lerins

Man naturally yearns for novelty. — Pliny The Elder

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty. — Clement Of Alexandria

you think about it, being crazy isn't such a bad place to start when you need some novelty in your life. — Elgon Williams

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. — Jane Smiley

Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death — Henri Barbusse

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Committment is the key to upliftment. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. — Anthony Marais

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. — Christopher Morley

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near. — Jim Bouton

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable. — John Taliaferro

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. — Susan Sontag

Oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything) — Michel De Montaigne

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm a flash in the pan: a novelty. — Joe Wurzelbacher

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. — Raymond Radiguet

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
[Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.] — Ovid

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
— Confucius

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. — Frank Barron

Novelty's a cloth that wears thin at an alarming rate. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility — Rosie Thomas

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. — Iris Murdoch

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. — Andre Maurois

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation. — Erik Larson

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty. — Edmund Gosse

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny. — A.A. Milne

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths. — John Piper

The poet, in the novelty of his images, is always the origin of language. — Gaston Bachelard

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service. — M T Anderson

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. — Edward Norton

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. — Mason Cooley

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming. — Pliny The Elder

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God. — St. Jerome

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field. — James Rennell

Inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn. — Daniel H. Pink

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. — Aristotle.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. — Samuel Johnson

God may not give that instant dollar bill your seeking, but it's in the little change He brings, that will add to a dollar. — Anthony Liccione

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. — Margaret Laurence

I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy. — Augustine Of Hippo

See owner for mounting instructions. - NOVELTY UNDERWEAR — Darynda Jones

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet. — Isabella Bird

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. — William Cowper

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty. — Rhian J. Martin

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson

All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you. — Jennifer Estep

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music. — Hannibal Buress

APPLICANTS MUST PASS AN ORAL EXAM BEFORE ADVANCING TO THE NEXT COURSE. - NOVELTY UNDERWEAR — Darynda Jones

Awareness is the novelty of our youth — Brian Triptow

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. — William Cowper

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer. — Raymond Loewy

It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger. — Jaclyn Dolamore

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty — Dominic Lawson

A man's integrity and novelty is his identity. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. — Marty Rubin