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• Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

  John Birmingham

  Wisdom, Art, Matter

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• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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• It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

  Chath Piersath

  Book, Years, Body

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• No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

  Roddy Doyle

  Stories, Might, Matter

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• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  Uma Thurman

  Fun, Challenges, Difficult

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• When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead.’

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.90, Ravenio Books

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• I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Thinking, Important, Language

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• I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.

  Arthur Hailey

  Writing, Weather, Track

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• All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.

  Prince William

  Kings, Stories, Want

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• I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

  Margaret Haddix

  Trying, Feels, Playing Around

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• A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

  Rumer Godden

  Memories, Gold, Thesaurus

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• What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.

  Rebecca Mead

  Children, Book, Identity

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books

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• Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Helping

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

  Peter Elbow

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

  Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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• On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

  Confucius

  Moving, Hands, Law

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• The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perfect, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

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• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

  Herbie Hancock

  Simple, Might, Musician

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• The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Rarity

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• Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Disappointment, Regret, Believe

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Guidance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Writing, Phrases, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

  Peter Gay

  Writing, Use, Deeper

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• We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

  Brigid Brophy

  Tongue, Should

  Brigid Brophy (1969). “In Transit”, Heretic Books

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