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• A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Heart, Elements, Haunting

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Stupid, Thinking

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make good choices, we draw more good experiences into our lives. It really is that simple … and elegant … and true.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Simple, Thinking, Choices

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• Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

  Peter Cundill

  Smart, Stupid, People

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.

  Marshall Sylver

  Ideas, Persuasion, Persons

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Beautiful, Math, Simple

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• Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

  William Cowper

  Simplicity, Ecstasy, Warm

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.20

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• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  Alexander Herzen

  Childhood, Insanity, Borders

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• Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

  Alber Elbaz

  Who You Are

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• Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

  Elie Saab

  Confidence, Attitude, Women

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• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Silly, Book

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• I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Simple, People, Trying

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• The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

  Adrian Tchaikovsky

  Book, Character, Ideas

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• Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

  Lucy Corin

  Smart, Scary, Nests

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• My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.

  Tyler Florence

  Party, Wine, Simple

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• I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose their heads. I can't really understand the whole thing - but it makes me laugh. It's such a cliche to think all French girls are well dressed, elegant, sophisticated and sexy. Some are utter slobs, I promise you that.

  Eva Green

  Girl, Sexy, Men

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• The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start. Having people over for take-out is better than never having people to an elegant dinner party.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Party, People

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• Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Natural, Social, Explanation

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• You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Meaningful, Together, Needs

  "Anthony Horowitz: Do we still need publishers?" by Anthony Horowitz, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Law, June, Tea

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

  Billy Wilder

  Plot, Hiding, Subtle

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• Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

  Christian Dior

  Light, Jewels, Sweaters

  "Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris" by Maria Doulton, The Telegraph, August 16, 2011.

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• It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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