Pugilistic Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Gratuitous redundancy makes prose difficult not just because readers have to duplicate the effort of figuring something out, but because they naturally assume that when a writer says two things she means two things, and fruitlessly search for the nonexistent second point. — Steven Pinker

But people don't need to remember how it felt to be happy and safe in the past. They need to have hope that they can get there again in the future. — Kiersten White

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger

Irv had rediscovered, as surprisingly few men do, that the secret to perfect male happiness is a well-equipped clubhouse. — Michael Chabon

Truth always comes with some measure of pain — Greg F. Gifune

I have never written a novel yet ... without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario. — P.G. Wodehouse

She could have kissed him. She would have kissed him, except that she never could have made it mean enough. — Owen R. O'Neill