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- 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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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become… — J. J. Abrams
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden