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Almost Always Quotes by Laurie Alberts
- Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
- Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
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- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
- Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they… — Ezra Taft Benson
- To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. — Michael Bloomberg
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence… — Albert Camus
- Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran
- I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is… — Roger Angell
- Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers
- Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and thus do… — Joyce Meyer
- The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau
- We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. — Luc de Clapiers