Details Quotes
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I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.
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Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
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Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
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Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
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It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
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It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
