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«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.»
«Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blunt, Clair, en clair, Famous Or, not famous, obscurity, satire, witty
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
adopted, Angeles, beach, Big Country, Big Town, blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, Boston, brainy, brash, brawny, Chicago, Dallas, fort, forts, Fort Worth, Francisco, friendly, hedonistic, home in, inland, palm, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, peaceful, Philadelphia, rubs, San, San Francisco, sensuous, Town of, Virginia, Virginia Beach, waterway
«'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, counsel, falsehoods, mischief, Tis
«If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
blunt, candid, confidentiality, Office of, remarks, tapes
«A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
blunt, discriminating, reduce, torpor, unfitting, voluntary
