"The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family."
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"You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch."
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"As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail."
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"A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life."
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"Caress the detail, the divine detail."
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"Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail."
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"Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right."
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"I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive."
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"Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature."
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"It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism."
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"Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to the cases. It helps me remember the details. And it was locked away in my desk drawer. Sherlock: The lock on your desk drawer was insulting me with its pretense at security."
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"But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value."
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"Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."
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"Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form"
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"I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art."
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"Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world."
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"Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too."
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"Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift."
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"I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life."
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"Success is in the details."
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