Quotes about Subtlety

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that th — Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. — Criss Jami, Healology
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been sh — Carol Shields, Unless
You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip. — Frank Herbert, Dune
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the p — Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to — Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers. — Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schar — Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivi — H.P. Lovecraft, Notes On Writing Weird Fiction
Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast. — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve. — Noah Lukeman, The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air f — Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The subtlest lie of all is the full truth. — Michael Moorcock, The Bane of the Black Sword
One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously t — New York Times The
Purple prose attracts attention more than converts. — Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself. — John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt