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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Brevity - the sister of talent.
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it.
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.
After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.