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- Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!” — Jeet Thayil
- The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust
- Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury
- Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it… — J D Salinger
- Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P.J. O'Rourke
- And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. — Robert Burns