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• I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, Writing, Pages

  "Charlaine Harris, living and dying in Bon Temps". Interview with John Williford, www.popmatters.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.

  Nicole Krauss

  Opposites, Shadow, Trying

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Like You, Plaid

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.20, Penguin

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Spiritual, Lying, Dark

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• To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Ocean, Eye, Hands

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• So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Thinking, Years

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Government, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent

  "The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophy, Educational

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Summer, Ocean, Dark

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2000). “Tales of Unease”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

  Shirley Jackson

  Fake People, Writing, Giving

  Shirley Jackson (2008). “The Lottery”, p.28, The Creative Company

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• If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Success, Stars, Philosophy

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• There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

  Dennis Miller

  Fear, People, Common Sense

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• In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

  Aristotle

  Art, Color, Giving

  Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). “Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica”

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• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  William Crawford Williamson

  Memories, Father, Science

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• The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.

  Helenio Herrera

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Jobs, Australia

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• So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in front of me. It's as if you get every brochure for a trip you are going to go on and you get the minutest details of every step along the way. Well, I really doubt you're going to then get in the car and go. You know, it's like, why bother if it's all laid out in front of you?

  Steve Tesich

  Writing, Car, Doubt

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• I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

  Jean Aitchison

  Writing, Use, Shapes

  Jean Aitchison (1997). “The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

  Hans Selye

  Careers, Advice, Mind

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• The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better; the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further.

  Irving Fisher

  Cutting, Math, Effort

  Irving Fisher (2006). “Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices, and Appreciation and Interest”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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