Convention Quotes

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

How crazy it is to define your happiness with hypocrisy-laced conventions? To always go with the flow and not letting the craziness show. Looks like the only sanity is to LET GO.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.