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Adjectives Quotes by Mark Twain
- You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder…
- When you catch an adjective, kill it.
- A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
- When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when…
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- To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two… — Gregory Bateson
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- We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
- You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry
- Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant