#definition

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. ↗

— George Saunders

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I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? ↗

— Howard Stringer

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. ↗

— James Lipton

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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. ↗

— George Michael

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