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«There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.»
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
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About:
Books,
Writers
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Keywords:
codes,
crypt,
epic,
epics,
epochs,
examples,
History of the,
inscribe,
inscribed,
oracles,
portal,
portals,
sentences,
temples,
The History of,
wrote
«Suspect all your favorite sentences»
«To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.»
Author: Paul Goodman
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Keywords:
adjust,
artistically,
author,
creatively,
imitation,
molding,
moldings,
nuance,
nuances,
piecemeal,
retreat,
rhythm,
sentences,
simpler,
tenor,
Tenors,
thought process,
translate,
translation,
translations
«These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.»
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
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Keywords:
concise,
contain,
drawing,
draw a line,
draw the line,
lines,
machine,
paragraph,
paragraphing,
paragraphs,
sentence,
sentences,
unnecessary,
vigorous
«Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory»
«The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.»
«The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.»
«Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.»
«These repeated forgeries and falsifications create a well-founded suspicion that all the cases spoken of concerning the person called Jesus Christ are made cases, on purpose to lug in, and that very clumsily, some broken sentences from the Old Testam»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
clumsily,
concerning,
falsification,
falsifications,
forgeries,
forgery,
lug,
lugging,
repeated,
sentences,
suspicion,
well-founded