Hugo Ball
Poet, Dadaist
"What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing."
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Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"Ah, grief makes us precise!"
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"Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time."
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"Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance."
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"[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance."
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