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I leave out the parts that people skip.
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
. I want to say many things I must omit. It is not fit to wake the soul by tender strokes of art, or to ruminate upon happiness we might enjoy, lest absences become intolerable.
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
The absent are always in the wrong
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Sins of omission, Louis said.
You don't believe in sins.
I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
A lie by omission is just as bad as a lie by commission.
We don't avoid the word... just the action.
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.
It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.
I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree
it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade.
Some things better left unspoken
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
Stop for a moment... let's see what you have skipped!
The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
I by not doing, not by doing, lost
Never find fault with the absent.
Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.
Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.
Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds
it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves
I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.
It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
I write more with the words I leave out.
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.
Omit the non-essential.
The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
Some things are better left unsaid.
Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.
Gratuitous redundancy makes prose difficult not just because readers have to duplicate the effort of figuring something out, but because they naturally assume that when a writer says two things she means two things, and fruitlessly search for the nonexistent second point.
Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.
I wonder now whether it isn't dangerous to assign significance to that which is essentially vacant, but we can't seem to avoid it. We cover up the holes with our speech, explaining away the emptiness until we forget it is there.
For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.
The words are merely references to something not present
Withholding distorts reality.
do not receive the actions, but stand after prepositions. Thus,
Only absences were fully shared.
I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out.
Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor ... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.
The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything
Know there's beauty in the words you leave out
Analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
orr we find a typo in a book.
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.
When in doubt, leave it out.
This sentence is not true
did something funny with the definite article.
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.
These were the things we would never notice were missing.
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren't the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?
No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.
As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
The semicolon is a much neglected beast
Silence has a grammar all its own.
Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
Always avoid alliteration.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
Perry never understood that phrase not to mention. It was mentioned.
It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement ... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.
I have missed you. And I did not know anything was missing.
One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.
And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus.
I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes.
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission