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Peter De Vries has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
— Howard Cosell
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Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
— Edouard Manet
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Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
— Edouard Manet
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
— Constance Hale
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
— Josh Gad
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A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need…
— David Cross
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Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
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Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She…
— Haruki Murakami
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Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
— Haruki Murakami
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