“Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.”
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Toni Morrison184
American writer 1931–2019Related quotes
“Everything depends on how something is said.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 102 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA102 <br class="br">Context: The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
“There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”
Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010) British children's writer
“Generosity, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop her progress; as her beauty is of that order which grows the more engaging upon nearer acquaintance.”
Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem usus ipse commendat.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 11, 3.
Letters, Book V
