accustomed quotes

I have already heard it. I had better not go: I will start to get accustomed to it and finally like it.

- Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov
Of the music of Debussy, when invited to a concert where it was to be performed. Quoted in Igor Stravinsky Chronicles of My Life (1936).

He woke me from the torpor of the accustomed.

- Robert Penn Warren
On familiar scenes more fully realized throughWalker Evans's realistic photographs. Quoted in Belinda RathboneWalker Evans (1995).