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«The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm and epigram»
«Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma»
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
epigram, paragraphing, paragraphs, platitude, purr, Purring, purrs, stroke
«To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given»
Author: John Updike
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War,
World
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arrangements, epigram, eunuch, provocative, standpoint, stateless
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
«Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice»
«What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul»
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