If you re-read your work you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

In a repressive society a writer can be deeply influential but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me but patience and persistence have paid off.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

The history of man is the history of crimes and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build we must build a defence against repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

My greatest fear: repetition.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.