Deletionist Quotes & Sayings

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? — Nataly Kelly

They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair - no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow. — Meredith Ann Pierce

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. — Jimmy Wales

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath. — Jack Gould

I have many friends who are married - not many who are happily married, but many married friends. The few happy ones are like my parents: They're baffled by my singleness. A smart, pretty, nice girl like me, a girl with so many interests and enthusiasms, a cool job, a loving family. And let's say it: money. They knit their eyebrows and pretend to think of men they can set me up with, but we all know there's no one left, no one good left, and I know that they secretly think there's something wrong with me, something hidden away that makes me unsatisfiable, unsatisfying. — Gillian Flynn

Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination. — Victoria Woodhull

Unfortunately, an equally strong negative current - fear - is at work. Fear of writing gets planted in most Americans at an early age, usually at school, and it never entirely goes away. The blank piece of paper or the blank computer screen, waiting to be filled with our wonderful words, can freeze us into not writing any words at all, or writing words that are less than wonderful. — William Zinsser

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. — Rosellen Brown

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be. — Roberto Bolano

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price. — Albert Einstein

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations. — Laura Furman

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. — John Milton

He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies. — Stephen Fry

Fitzgerald to Zelda's DR. Oct. 1932

"Why can't I sell my short stories?" she says.

"Because you're not putting yourself in them. Do you think the Post pays me for nothing?"

(She wants to make money but she wants to save her good stuff for books so her stories are simply casually observed, unfelt phenomena, while mine are sectiobs, debased, over- simplified, if you like, of my own soul. That is our bread and butter and her health and Scotty's education.) p. 221 — F Scott Fitzgerald