#gum

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#because #just #just because #opponent #right

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#argument #book #determinism #feel #i

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. ↗

— Robert Half

#convincing #win #yourself

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. ↗

— Lord Halifax

#argument #good #seldom #without

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#blowing #bubble #carefree #felt #flavor

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#best #energy #get #ink #intellectual