#detail

Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#detail #divine

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way. ↗

— Marie Osmond

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#sensory #sensual #style #very #writing

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. ↗

— Cobi Jones

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