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• One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

  Ezra Pound

  Sweet, Feet, Patterns

  "Affirmations: As for Imagism". The New Age, January 1915.

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• The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out.
  The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you--
  The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence
  The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

  John Dos Passos

  Army, Winning, Snakes

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.

  James Boswell

  Character, Men, Drawing

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• The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Kids, Games, Video

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• I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Neat And Tidy, Japan, America

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Amnesia Moon”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Real, Guitar, People

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• Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Narrative, Way

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• We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

  Tina Weymouth

  Down And, Excited, Knows

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• But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

  Uma Thurman

  People, Parent, Backgrounds

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• Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Ambition, Mediocrity

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• Hoboken is a neat place.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Hoboken

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• The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

  Dennis Lehane

  Neat And Tidy, Connections, Doe

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• Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

  Neil Diamond

  Insanity, Crunchy, Granola

  Song: Crunchy Granola Suite, Album: Stones, 1971

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• It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

  Janis Ian

  Accepting, I Can

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• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Eye, Home

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

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• As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

  Josh Billings

  Moral, Individual, Persons

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• Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.

  Thomas Jane

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Thinking, America

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Unlikely, Multiple

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• We've had some really good guest stars. But I have to go with Alec Baldwin as my favorite. He is so neat and such a movie star. He's handsome and quirky. I was in heaven the week he was on the set.

  Nikki Cox

  Beauty, Stars, Heaven

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• TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.

  Shel Silverstein

  Feet, Tree, House

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• I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

  Lee Daniels

  Neat And Tidy, Two, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mean, Writing, Practice

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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