#prose

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this. ↗

— Barbara Olson

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It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. ↗

— George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. ↗

— James Payn

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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. ↗

— Cole Porter

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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. ↗

— Ted Rall

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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. ↗

— Ted Rall

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