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“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
C.S. Lewis
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out”
Winston Churchill
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words”
Woody Allen
“Use the right word and not its second cousin”
Mark Twain
“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me."”
“These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.”
Albert Einstein
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
Winnie the Pooh
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