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«The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.»
Author: Dirk Bogarde
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
camera, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, polemic, polemics
«Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.»
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
(Columnist, Journalist, Translator)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, unimaginative
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
| Keywords:
concise, contain, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, lines, machine, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentence, sentences, unnecessary, vigorous
«How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
dared, deflated, deflates, deflating, disputant, disputants, dispute, paragraph, paragraphing
«I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
nightfall, paragraph
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, reflect
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