Tulsi Gabbard (1981) U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district
Twitter post https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard, (19 Jun 2019) <br class="br">Twitter account, June 2019
“Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.”
Letter to Mrs. Blumberg (27 September 1977)
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“We do not write poems with ideas, but with words.”
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) French Symbolist poet
Ce n'est pas avec des idées qu'on fait des vers, c'est avec des mots.
A remark reported in Psychologie de l'art (1927) by Henri Delacroix, p. 93; as translated in Literary Impressionism (1973), Maria Elisabeth Kronegger, p. 77.
Observations
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author
Source: I Am the Messenger
“I made so many pictures, that many are a blur in my mind.”
Virginia Grey (1917–2004) American actress (1917-2004)
Western Clippings Interview, Mike Fitzgerald, 1998 [citation needed]
Context: One that isn’t a blur is “The Last Command” made for Republic. “We made ours before Duke made his ‘Alamo’. There was a beef with Herbert Yates over the title. We shot it on location in Brackettville, TX, and the John Wayne version used our left-over sets. Although we were in Texas, I never got to San Antonio, so I never saw the ‘real’ Alamo—just the one constructed in Brackettville.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) French Symbolist poet
From Degas, Manet, Morisot by Paul Valéry (trans. David Paul), Princeton University Press, 1960.
Observations
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 94
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
Joan Aiken (1924–2004) English fiction writer
Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories