"Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity."

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William Zinsser

#Moving Quotes #Style Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.”

Source : Dalton Trumbo, E. L. Doctorow (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.104, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”
“The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.”
“Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.”
“The movement of life has to rest in its own music.”
“There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse's muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space.”

Source : Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Horse Goddess”, p.198, Macmillan
“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
“If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.”

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