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  • Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Ideas Quotes , House Quotes
  • The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Numbers Quotes
  • What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Real Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
  • 5 years ago



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