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“Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task”
Walter Lippmann quotes (American Journalist, 1889-1974)
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“I have never understood why when you pass a stranger on the street you ask them how they are doing, but then don't wait for the answer. I know that if you did wait for their answer they probably wouldn't go into much detail, but still, just think abo”


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“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”
William Carlos Williams quotes (American Poet, 1883-1963)

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“The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.”
William Maxwell quotes

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“Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.”
Louis Kronenberger quotes (American Writer, 1904-1980)

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“O Krishna, I have heard from You in detail about the origin and dissolution of beings, and Your imperishable glory.”
Bhagavad Gita quotes

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“But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in, like, microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind?”


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“Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.”
Robertson Davies quotes (Canadian Journalist and Author. 1913-1995)

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“The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.”
Aubrey Menen quotes
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“Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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