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  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Johnson Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • KäThe Kollwitz No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Johnson The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Plato The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anita Brookner Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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