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Susan Vreeland has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What the world calls failure, I call learning.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's…
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed…
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through…
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It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was…
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they…
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by…
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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the…
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close…
— George Burns
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
— Horace
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity…
— Eduard Suess
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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