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Quotes Tagged "bloody"

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
— Ernest Hemingway
Tags: writing, writer, wisdom, success, solemn, seriousness, serious, popinjay, owl, knowledge, iceberg, hawk, culture, buzzard, bloody, allegory
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
— Vladimir Putin
Tags: bloody, stalin, dictator, much, just
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
— William Ernest Henley
Tags: cried, bloody, head, chance
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
— Alex Kapranos
Tags: bloody, rather, than, eat
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