"Less is more, in prose as in architecture."

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Source : DONALD HALL (1973). “WRITING WELL”

Donald Hall

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“She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “The Painted Bird”, p.70, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.”
“I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.”
“You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home.”
“This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.”
“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.”
“A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.”
“We ought to be bragging about Florida!”

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