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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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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.
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The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
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What you don't do, what you omit, often has more painful consequences than what you do.
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I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
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If by chance I have omitted anything more or less proper or necessary, I beg forgiveness, since there is no one who is without fault and circumspect in all matters.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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These were the things we would never notice were missing.
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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
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Some things are better left unsaid.
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Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
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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.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
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Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,
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A lie by omission is just as bad as a lie by commission.
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I write more with the words I leave out.
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Only that which is absent can be imagined.
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The absent are always in the wrong
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. 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.
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There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit.
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Silence too, can be misquoted
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By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out.
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Do you remember what I forgot?
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It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
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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.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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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.
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One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.
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The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.
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Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
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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.
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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.
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Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors ...
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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.
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Know there's beauty in the words you leave out
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there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences,
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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.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
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Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history.
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The words are merely references to something not present
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I wondered how many things people missed when they were busy talking too much. "Are
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In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.
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Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.
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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.
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One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.
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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.
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And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.
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Some things shouldn't be seen. Some things don't need to be said.
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The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes.
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Omit the non-essential.
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I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
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The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
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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.
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When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.
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I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral.
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There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.
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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.
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[Hillary] Clinton glossed over a lot of things, left a lot of things out that people are gonna be filling in the blanks today, like [Donald] Trump. "I kept waiting on the one chapter I wanted to hear," he said, "and I didn't hear it. I kept waiting."
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Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.
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There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
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There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.
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Books are absent teachers.
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Some things one doesn't want to remember.
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These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story,
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.
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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.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.
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In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said ... of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
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We don't avoid the word... just the action.
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It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.
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While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.
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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.
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Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.
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Some things we must pass over in silence.
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The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.
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So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss ... A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.
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The compulsion to include everything, leaving nothing out, does not prove that one has unlimited information; it proves that one lacks discrimination.
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Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
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There are no mistakes, just lines that you're not happy with.
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All writers misspeak, revealing not what they thought they said, but almost what they were afraid to say.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
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Only absences were fully shared.
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In the analysis of books, as in the analysis of complex world events, we hover between two kinds of error: ascribing too much meaning where there is little, if any, to be found, and ignoring meaning that stares us right in the face.
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Try not to write the parts that people skip.
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Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
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these memoirs would never have appeared; or,
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Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
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One of the two is almost always a prevailing tendency of every author: either not to say some things which certainly should be said, or to say many things which did not need to be said. The first is the original sin of synthetic natures, the latter of analytical natures.
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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.