Quotes with monastery

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• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
  

  John Keats
  English poet (1795 - 1821)
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• Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

  Quentin Crisp
  English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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• We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

  David Mamet
  American Playwright (1947 - )
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• You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• considered
• protective
• everything
• incredibly
• aesthetic

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