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• Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Butterfly, Artist

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• Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Writing, Years

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• Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, World

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

  Haruki Murakami

  Names, Giving, Mind

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• Aren't you, uh..." Clary searched for the right word. "Reproducing?

  Cassandra Clare

  Reproducing, Clarissa Fray

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Achievement, Squandering

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

  Eric Schlosser

  Fighting, Long, Important

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islam, Trying, Ataturk

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  Needs, Weapons, Language

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• I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.

  Regina Spektor

  Optimistic, Light, Sides

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

  Larry Wilmore

  Discovery, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Wall, Book

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• Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Hobbies, Income

  "Flashback: Penn Jillette Calls Cops on Groping TSA Agent". drudgereport.com. November 13, 2002.

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• Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

  Robert Littell

  Hard Work, Pages, Details

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• Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?" Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words. "Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to.

  Jana Oliver

  Hands, Asking, World

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.281, Macmillan

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• We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

  Suzy Kassem

  War, Ideas, Doors

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

  Steve Martin

  Creating, Enjoy, Rhythm

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• I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dream, Believe

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• I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Perfect

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Feet, Long

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• Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

  Patrice Leconte

  Long, Three, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

  Mark Twain

  Powerful, Light, Agents

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.140, 谷月社

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• I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.

  Sylvia Day

  Love You, Want, Stills

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.500, Penguin

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• The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

  Yip Harburg

  Divorce, Romance, Phrases

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• My boyfriend is a chef, so he cooks for me, but I cook too. The only time I felt pressure was when he asked how I wanted vegetables chopped, so I described in sizes whereas he knows the right words. I felt a bit daft then.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Vegetables, My Boyfriend, Pressure

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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