Details Quotes
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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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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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
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We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.
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If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all 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 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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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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Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.
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Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
