"Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to."

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W. Somerset Maugham

#Writing Quotes #Looks Quotes #Weight Quotes

“The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?”
“The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.”
“Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.”
“And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173
“Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.”
“The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.”
“The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.”

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