"The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing……" — Yevgeny Zamyatin
"The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage."
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58 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin has 58 quotes on this site.
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Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not…
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as…
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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not…
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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine;…
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What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the…
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth…
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to…
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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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More Brevity Quotes
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one of 86 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two…
— George Burns
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
— Anton Chekhov
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
— Horace
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and…
— Eduard Suess
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
— Louise Brooks
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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