"It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words."

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Source : Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.333, Wordsworth Editions

Henry Watson Fowler

#Needs Quotes #Merit Quotes #Said Quotes

“I got through college realizing business was repugnant.”
“He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.”
“So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.”
“I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.”
“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.”

Source : "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.”
“Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”
“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”

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