LANGUAGE, JOURNALISM and CRITICS

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
- Leo Rosten

...as if a poem were . . . a shadow from which the object had been withdrawn.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

Words without ideas are like sails without wind.
- Courier Record

Words must be weighed, not counted.
- Polish Proverb

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
- Jean Sibelius

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli, statesman

No goverment ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
- Frank A. Clark

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
- Oscar Wilde

Those of you who think you know everything greatly annoy those of us who do.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
- Woodrow Wilson

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
- Frank Tyger

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