#pros

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#branch #congress #did #executive #executive branch

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care. ↗

— Ron Wyden

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. ↗

— Mark Strand

#more #poem #prose #reader #than

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

#actor #because #delivered #does #essence

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. ↗

— Paul Getty

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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. ↗

— Paul Getty

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