"No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure."

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Source : Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.17, Harper Collins

Stanley Fish

#Connections Quotes #Structure Quotes

“We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.”
“It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.”
“America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.”
“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.50, Penguin
“When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.”
“I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.”

Source : "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.”

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