"You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.

Rufus Choate

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“I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.”
“When things are tough, you get tougher.”
“He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.”

Source : Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.109, Harper Collins
“Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.”
“What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.”
“..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In this way, the supposed miracles of government spending will appear in another light.”
“Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.”
“I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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