#brevity

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#charm #eloquence #great

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#eternal #extreme #infancy #rest

Brevity is the soul of wit. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#soul #wit

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#on-writing #paraphrased #inspirational

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? ↗

— Stephen King

#brief #dreams #sweet #dreams

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#death #story #dating

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoiding #brevity #jargon #while

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

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