"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"

-- Steven Wright

#Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.”

Source : Matsuo Basho (2015). “Lips too Chilled”, p.43, Penguin UK
“It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.”

Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.113, Ballantine Books
“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”
“So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the tributaries from the various areas come in there also. It's also highly populated. So we're working a number of water rescues. We're working extremely hard to keep people safe and make sure that we're keeping the rule of law and keep people warm. It's been pretty cold.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.”

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