Quotes About Clarity

her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.

Since the police knew who killed Debbie Carter, they helpfully informed Melvin Hett.

I like it," Massey said, "but it would be nice to wrap this up. Go to seven, Layton, but that's all.

She wrote well, in the standard, scholarly legal fashion of long sentences filled with large words. But she was clear. She avoided the double-talk and legal lingo most students strive so desperately for. She would never make it as an attorney employed by the United States Government.

when he started for the fourth, Mary cut him off. In a clear and unwavering voice

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

language so lucid and graceful that it sparkled

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?

We must do away with all explanation and allow only description in its place".

Philosophy should take thoughts that are otherwise turbid and blurred, so to speak, and make them clear and sharp.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

success does not mean you cannot be tricked.

This is a writer's lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

There are always suicides, Garp wrote, among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Don't get your balls crossed about it.

Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.

Things often are as they appear. First impressions matter.

But you don't see with hindsight in a first draft. You have to finish the first draft to see what you've missed.

Then he looked only at me. "YOU'RE GETTING SMALLER, BUT I CAN STILL SEE YOU!" said Owen Meany. Then

Every misunderstanding has at its center a breakdown of language.

Sempre há suicídios entre as pessoas que não conseguem dizer o que querem

There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean.

What a phrase that is: "that explains everything!" I know better than to think that anything "explains everything" today.

Just be sure you talk to her, Jack. Ask her everything, while there's still time.