"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it." — Stendhal

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• There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke… — Margaret Atwood
• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
• Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture… — Anita Baker
• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by… — James A. Baldwin
• Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight… — Steven Biko
• I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,… — Conrad Black
• When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so… — Niels Bohr
• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
• What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing… — Julie Burchill
• I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things,… — Nick Cave
• Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is… — Diablo Cody
• Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of… — Roger Penrose

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