Quotes About Clarity

scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?

Ziveti pod vedrim nebom, nikada ne provodeci vise od sat ili dva u zatvorenom, otupljuje i zaslepljuje mozak kao sto ti jaka svetlost zaslepi oci. Ponasas se, i planiras i patis, ali i dalje ti je sve nekako daleko, kao da ti je zivot izasao iz fokusa, kao da postaje nerealan. Svet, spoljnji i unutrasnji, kao da polako bledi dok ti ne postane nesto poput vecega sna.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.

Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant.

La liberté, c'est la liberté de dire que deux et deux font quatre. Une fois que cela est accordé, le reste suit automatiquement.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already

You understand, that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark.

There was truth and untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Spotkamy siÄ™ tam, gdzie nie ma mroku.

One knew that it was all rubbish, so why let oneself be worried by it?

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier – even quicker, once you have the habit – to say In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little.

That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Un escritor más escrupuloso se preguntará ante cada una de sus frases, al menos, cuatro cosas: ¿qué trato de decir?; ¿con qué palabras puedo expresarlo?; ¿qué imagen o frase hecha lo dirá más claro?, y, por último, ¿tiene esta imagen la frescura suficiente para causar en el lector el efecto deseado? Y

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They

It is not easy to become sane.

They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

NASIL'?n? anl?yorum: NEDEN'ini anlam?yorum.

In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.

Thy debts are thine enemies who have run thee out of Babylon', Sira had said. Yes, it was so. Why had I refused to stand my ground like a man? Why had I permitted my wife to go back to her father? Why had I been weak like a slave if I had not the soul of one? 'Then a strange thing happened. All the world seemed to be of a different color as though I had been looking at it through a colored stone which had suddenly been removed. At last I saw the true values in life.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works—also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.