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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation, unforeseen, poetry, things

Traditionally, we had a very rigid system of political representation. The opportunity to enter the EU shook everything up.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics, chance

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about christianity, knowledge, power, good, good luck

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about risk, commerce, writers

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about limits, civilization

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Quote by John Bradshaw about contentment

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about vitality, praise

My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Quote by Tom Hanks about christmas, quiet, home, house

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

Quote by Paris Hilton

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Quote by Molly Ivins about satire

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Quote by Brian De Palma about numbers, work, world

The average Turkish citizen longs both to join the EU and to see a strengthening of the traditional Turkish identity.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about identity

I don't quite recall how I first got interested in traditional jazz.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about music