"If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one."

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Source : c.1900 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.5.

Arthur Brisbane

#Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.”
“Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?”
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”

Source : Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.136, Cornell University Press
“I took whatever the devil offered me.”
“Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356
“I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.”
“But I don't want your throne." "Then what do you want?" "You.”
“I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.”

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