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“Escribir para uno mismo es el camino para que los demás nos lean”

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“If you are writing for an educated audience and, to take an example, you use the phrase mutatis mutandis, you are not showing off—you are communicating. You are using words to do what words are supposed to do. It reminds me of the time that someone complained to William F. Buckley about all the unusual words that he would employ. His reply was that the words were not unusual to him. Words are there for a reason, and foreign phrases can often do the trick that more homey phrases cannot. But if you are blogging about your adventures as a shopping mom, and you write about your purchase of a 48-pack of corn dogs at Costco, and you describe them as de provenance étrangère, it had better be a joke. Unusual words or phrases (foreign and domestic) are a barrier to understanding, unless the point is to communicate to the reader that you know something they don't. Then they understand what you are doing quite well.”

Writing Communication Words Writing Process Vocabulary Logophile Mot Juste

Book:Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

Source: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“There's a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn't mean love at first sight. It's closer to love at second sight. It's the feeling when you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don't love them straight away, but it's inevitable that you will.”

Book:The Sun Is Also a Star

Source: The Sun Is Also a Star

“I revere a kind of sanctity in language and that reverence stands in place of an aesthetic. I wouldn't even make the case that I'm a writer; it's just what I put in the field if someone asks. It's easier than saying what I actually am, which is best expressed as what I actually do, which functionally a kind of worship. I think there are configurations of words that have power. I think they can be arranged in such a way as to modify the operation of the mind. I'm not even saying I succeed at this. I'm saying that seeking these configurations is the only thing I know how to do.”

Logophile Logophilia Nailed It Strange Kinship Of Uneasy Minds

Author:Jerry Holkins

“If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?”

Obedience Scottish Laws Ceremonies Presbyterian Rpw

Book:A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland

Source: A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland

“As you begin a life of service to your nation, your family, and your god, may your experience at Valor be like the sharpening stone. A blunt and hard movable object that is used to bring an edge to a blade.”

Beginnings And Endings Ceremonies Embark

Book:Camp Valor

Source: Camp Valor

“Zemii sunt animale sociabile şi inteligente, mai mult sau mai puţin. Viaţa lor de zi cu zi cuprinde numeroase reguli de comportamentare, ritualuri şi ceremonii, încălcate însă atât de des încît e greu de distins între regulă şi excepţii.”

Rituals Exceptions Ceremonies Zmei

Book:Enciclopedia zmeilor

Source: Enciclopedia zmeilor

“Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.”

Religion Beliefs Superstition

Author:Albert Camus

“The poetics of politics had to be observed.”

Visuals Symbolism Ceremonies

Author:Tom Clancy

“All ceremonial events such as initiation (baptism) and incorporation, signs of communal membership, signify in the final analysis the renunciation of the intimate sphere of the person, if not emotionally, as in the bond of a biological blood-based kinship, then nevertheless spiritually, ideationally, and symbolically.”

Community Marriage Intimacy Privacy Initiation Ceremonies

Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

“The way I heard it was in the old days long time ago they had this Scalp Society for warriors who killed or touched dead enemies. They had things they must do otherwise K'oo'ko wouldn't haunt their dreams with her great fangs and everything would be endangered. Maybe the rain wouldn't come or the deer would go away. That's why they had things they must do The flute and dancing blue cornmeal and hair-washing. All these things they had to do.”

Tradition Native Americans Ceremonies

Book:Ceremony

Source: Ceremony