"At a certain fork in the road of……" — Rebecca Solnit

"At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures."

— Rebecca Solnit

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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at… — Gregory Bateson
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this… — Alison Brie
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,… — Maya Angelou
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a… — Hal Borland
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what… — Larry McMurtry
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give… — Guy de Maupassant
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.… — Mark Twain
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat… — Anton Chekhov

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