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“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.”

Writing Wells Games Lost Essence Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.”

World Fall Lost Buddhism Essence Reactions Spokes Ritual Introduction Vedanta

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."”

Problem Today Lost Speak Essence Introduction Estimation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”

Feelings Lost Grows Essence Sentiments Old Fashioned Spontaneity Sentimentality

Author:Margaret Ayer Barnes

“When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form”

May Stills Form Spirit Lost Gone Virtue Essence Republic

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.”

Government Evil Lost Citizens Essence Assuming Population Anticipate Evil Government

Author:Philip K. Dick

“There are those uncomfortable things that've passed that you have to deal with or they define you, like childhood trauma. Like when I'm lost, I just feel like somewhere along the line, if you've gone through any childhood trauma, it makes you lose your essence and it takes a while to get that back. There are certain things about that that push my buttons.”

Ifs Feels Certain Lost Loses Lines Deals Gone Childhood Essence Trauma Uncomfortable Buttons Childhood Trauma Define You

Author:Mike Ness

“Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.”

Ifs Belief Lost Opinion Essence Forgotten Absence Discussion Phrases Conception Shells Vivid

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.”

Ideas Philosophy Lost Pure Models Essence Ancient Greek Engaged Ancient Greek

Author:Julian Baggini

“Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.”

Mind Mean Matter Lost Half Accepting Fire Essence Died Islam Everyday Possession Prize Pot Submission Mares

Book:The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies

Source: The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.”

“If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.”

Ifs Needs Lost Existence Essence Sight Lost Love Love One Another

Author:Darren Johnson

“Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.”

Heart Lost Forget Calling Mercy Essence Saved Judgement

Author:Jonathan Cahn

“The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.”

Men Writing May Soul Self Sometimes Lost Given Subjects He Man Late Gains Essence Torment Soul Searching

Author:Wright Morris