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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite… — John Steinbeck
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,… — Flannery O'Connor
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself… — Donald Murray
Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it. — Eric Partridge
Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be… — Pieter Zeeman
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the… — Emanuel Lasker
You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know… — Rhianna
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. — Richard Avedon
By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right… — Margaret Bourke-White
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. — Edward Weston
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible,… — Unknown Author
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible,… — Henri Matisse
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather… — Mark Lepper
Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken… — Peter Singer
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not… — Peter Singer
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie

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