A short story is simplification to the highest degree

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

— Henry Seidel Canby

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short…

— Henry Seidel Canby

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a…

— Raymond Carver

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those…

— Charles Babbage

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree…

— Edmund Burke

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage…

— Pope Paul VI

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for…

— Christopher Hitchens

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

— Cardinal Richelieu

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages…

— Charles R. Morris

I love the love that you see for 'Ted Lasso,' but there's also, I think, a kind of simplification of the show. Particularly from…

— Brett Goldstein

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization,…

— David Mccandless

The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in…

— Julian Young