novelty

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

I have a novel way to eliminate crime as we know it. Instead of passing sentences of a certain number of years, why don't we educate the inmates and not let them out until they have maintained at least a C average from a grade school to a high school curriculum. Do you know how many people we could actually keep in prison and for how long? Think about it.

We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

We are living in a period which all too readily scraps the old for the new. . . . As a nation, we are in danger of forgetting that the new is not true because it is novel, and that the old is not false because it is ancient.

Part of human nature resents change, loves equilibrium, while another part welcomes novelty, loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war, but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - & so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - The whole world is an America, a New World.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.