{"quotes":[{"text":"I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.","author":"Jamaica Kincaid","tags":["familiarity","family","judgmental","womanhood"],"id":571,"author_id":"Jamaica+Kincaid"},{"text":"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["familiarity","heredity","history","popular-science","psychology","survival"],"id":2320,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.","author":"William Bernbach","tags":["apathy","familiarity "],"id":17583,"author_id":"William+Bernbach"},{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","challenges","challenging","comfort","comfortable","excellence","familiarity","fear","laziness","lazy","mediocrity","retreat","routine","stance","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":51564,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["art","familiarity","film","location","painting","photograph","places"],"id":52779,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blind","blindness","careless","carelessness","choices","decisions","discernment","error","errors","familiar","familiarity","hole","holes","mistake","mistakes","road","road-of-life","stupidity","time","wisdom"],"id":68001,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.","author":"Truth Devour","tags":["assumptions","familiarity","illusion"],"id":74302,"author_id":"Truth+Devour"},{"text":"By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","comfort","comforting","decision","decisions","familiar","familiarity","fear","fearful","forfeit","lose","mediocre","mediocrity","miss","passive"],"id":75139,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.","author":"Julian Barnes","tags":["boredom","contentment","familiarity","habit","long-term-relationships","love","marriage"],"id":83466,"author_id":"Julian+Barnes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}