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" Quotes and Sayings About prose

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Born Came Change Collapsed
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Paper Tedious Difficult Form
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Conceal Hold Incumbent Material
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I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

Am Amongst Barbarians Believe
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Age Between Candidate Distinction
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Always Even Poet Prose
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Prose Adages Verse Which
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Fun Games Guy I Love
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I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
Attention Draws Itself Produce
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There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

Convert Could Creative Day
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Just Lot Prose Published
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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Before Born Came Prose
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It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Cost Fraction Prevent Than
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We will ensure that all rape cases are thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators of this hideous crimes are prosecuted.

Will ensure Rape cases Investigated Perpetrators
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For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In politics In religion Equally Making proselytes
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The role of government, through its criminal justice system, is to ensure that all kinds of criminal activity are prosecuted, not join them

The role Government Criminal justice System
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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Prose Words Best Order
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Could foreign courts prosecute those responsible for crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe?

Foreign courts Prosecute Those responsible Crime
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Until all those involved in the looting of the NDDC are arrested, made to refund all funds stolen, and prosecuted no one should talk to me about this administration fighting corruption.

Those involved The looting Are arrested Refund all
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