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“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)”
― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing

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#2

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: brevity, writing

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#3

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
― George Burns

tags: brevity, humor, religion

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#4

“Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

tags: brevity, etiquette, politeness, sincerity

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#5

“Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.”
― Louise Brooks

tags: brevity, on-writing, paraphrased

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#6

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”
― George Saunders

tags: books, brevity, definition, novel, short, short-stories, short-story

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