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Style may
defined as the proper words in the proper places.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
As a man has
no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or
insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious
expression of his personality in literature the aim of his
life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully
considered work which seemed good enough when it was
written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly
enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy
members of a man's family.
-- J. M. Synge
1871-1909, Irish Poet,
Dramatist
The two most
engaging powers of a good author are to make new things
familiar and familiar things new.
-- William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born
British Novelist
A perfectly
healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the
most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as
if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or
evening without their colors, or the heavens without their
azure.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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How vain it is
to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Some American
writers who have known each other for years have never met
in the daytime or when both were sober.
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist,
Illustrator
When all
things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective
than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than
glare.
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist,
Illustrator
A writer is
dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he
reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
-- Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist,
Philosopher
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