"No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out."

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Source : "Can you give the public what it wants?: The need for better communications in editing, writing, broadcasting, advertising, public relations [and] teaching".

#Long Quotes #Worry Quotes #Focus Quotes

“A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.”
“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”

Source : 'By the Way' (1931) p. 282
“The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.”
“Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
“Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.183, Akashic Books
“Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.”

Source : Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.77
“Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.”
“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”

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