The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ernest Hemingway

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ernest Hemingway
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Nelson Boswell
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first and great commandment is Don’t let them scare you.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Elmer Davis
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Confucius
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Ed Koch
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Aldous Huxley
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry David Thoreau
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry David Thoreau