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Quotes About Trenchant

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
In view of her penchant for something romantic DeSade is too trenchant and Dickens too frantic and Stendahl would ruin the plan of attack as there isn't much blue in THE RED AND THE BLACK. DeMaupassant's candor would cause her dismay The Brontes are grander But not very gay Her taste is much blander I'm sorry to say But is Hans Christian Andersen ever risque?
~ Stephen Sondheim
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb