#prose

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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.


Nadeem Aslam


#prose #war #life

It is only losers that are prosecuted.


George Galloway


#only #prosecuted

They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.


Stendhal


#peer-pressure #prose #public-censure #death

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.


Ernest Hemingway


#hemingway #minimalism #prose #writing #age

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.


Joyce Carol Oates


#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.


Jack Prelutsky


#i #i can #into #just #learned

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.


Patti Smith


#i #just #lot #prose #published

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.


Sonia Sotomayor


#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.


Dick Schaap


#cliches #permeated #prose