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- The best propaganda omits rather than invents
- To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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- He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do;… — Charles Hodge
- Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection… — Lytton Strachey
- If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway
- Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,… — Egon Friedell
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- The best propaganda omits rather than invents — Mason Cooley