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Quotes About Clarity

Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.
~ Jennifer Niven
It's just to talk. Nothing more. It's not like I'm hitting on you. Finch: Unless you want me to. Hit on you, I mean. Me: No. Finch: "No" you don't want me to come over? Or "no" you don't want me hitting on you?
~ Jennifer Niven
Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do
~ Jennifer Niven
Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me?
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes things feel true to us even if they're not
~ Jennifer Niven
I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don't mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.
~ Jennifer Niven
Provable truths are what we need.
~ Ellis Peters
The one thing Leonard won't tolerate is fancy prose. As he states in his 10 Rules of Writing: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
~ Elmore Leonard
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
~ Elmore Leonard
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.
~ Elmore Leonard
If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
~ Elmore Leonard
but he knew by the way the man was looking at him his words had been wasted. "I'm going up the mountain," Tanner said.
~ Elmore Leonard
Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
~ Elmore Leonard
A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.
~ Elmore Leonard
We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.
~ Emerson
De meeste schaduw in dit leven veroorzaken we door in ons eigen zonlicht te gaan staan.
~ Emerson Ralph 1831-1914
Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.
~ Émile Zola
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
~ Emily Bronte
Deixe-me a sós, que preciso pensar; enquanto penso, não sofro...
~ Emily Bronte
I had changed my perspective by seeing what I wasn't supposed to see.
~ Emily Devenport
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
~ Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
~ Emily Dickinson
The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
~ Emily Dickinson
I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
~ Emily Dickinson