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He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
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Nevertheless, Rhetoric is useful, because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible.
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A guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.
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I am an Author a person that plays with words that dance in the minds of others
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Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.
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Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.
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The Columbian Orator.
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Logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use
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The poetry of speech.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times, like PT. It's not about being right, they had philosophy for that. Rhetoric was their chat show. Bernard's indignation is a sort of aerobics for when he gets on television.
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comedic playwright.
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It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.
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Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.
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The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.
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The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric was universal and it quickly coloured all literature. It
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armed with the discourse of counter-ideology.
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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
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Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
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The Verbalist, 1894
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You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
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Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.
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First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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I'm a dramatist.
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If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible
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Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.
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When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
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Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
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I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
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What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
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Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.
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I am a poet
writing frenetic free verse
I am pretentious
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Wordsmiths who serve established power ... castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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A linguistically informed literary criticism is the key to resolving conflict and frustration, from psychotherapy and law to philosophy and politics. Call this the messianic theory. It is based on the idea that TO THINK IS TO GRASP A METAPHOR-the metaphor metaphor.
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I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
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Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.
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A writer is a word trapped in a person.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
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Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
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If I'm not a writer, who am I?
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We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
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Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]
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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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Prattle without practice
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato ... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The present work is, then, the masterpiece of one particular literary genre that flourished in the fourth century BC in Greece, that of the rhetorical manual, and it is a remarkable fact that it should have fallen to Aristotle to write it. It
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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
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The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.
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The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
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[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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I am a writer ... a master of words.'Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.
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Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.
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I'm a communicator.
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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
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A writer is someone who writes!
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
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Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.
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He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.
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WRITERS ARE "SPIRITIAL VENTRILOQUIST" WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE PAPER TALK!
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Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.
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Writing is a political instrument.
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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
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Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable
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When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
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He has tongue of a writer.
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Language is the machine of the poet.
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Take a moment to catch your breath and revel in your rhetorical mastery and achievement.
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A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.
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A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.
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No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..
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For the prose artist the world is full of other people's words, among which he must orient himself and whose speech characteristics he must be able to perceive with a very keen ear. He must introduce them into the plane of his own discourse, but in such a way that this plane is not destroyed.