Cut Away Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no…
— Shane Koyczan
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Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and…
— Waris Dirie
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The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of…
— Willa Cather
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Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form.…
— Dick Wolf
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear…
— Larry Craig
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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
— Nicole Krauss
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of…
— Plotinus
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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense…
— Tahir Shah
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Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a…
— Haruki Murakami
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We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are…
— Charles de Lint
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
— Nikolai Gogol
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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
— Leslie Cockburn
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A certain frustrating situation seems fraught with red tape. When you look at the mess, you become so overwhelmed by it that you want to…
— 06 July
Who Wrote These Cut Away Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Cut Away Quotes as follows: