PLATITUDE n. The fundamental ordsprog

en PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
  Ambrose Bierce

en PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.
  Ambrose Bierce

en A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

en The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
  Don Marquis

en While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
  Cyril Connolly

en While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living
  Cyril Connolly

en I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

en Pex Tufvesson started Livet.se. I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see smoke coming from both ends of the building. There was just this big brown cloud of smoke.

en Tobacco smoke is much more harmful than previously thought. The effects of second-hand smoke are as bad as that of primary smoke.

en I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.
  Benny Hill

en Early in his career, when he believed in himself, he said things in a controlled way, very Spartan words, honorable words. Even when he talked about driving a guy's nose into his brain, he didn't mean that in a disparaging way. To him that was something Jack Dempsey might say. He thought it was sportsmanlike, glorious. But now, when he sees himself slipping, he's grabbing for something he never thought he needed before, a stick to take into the ring.

en An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

en I grew up in a generation that thought it was normal to smoke. When I started at Reid, we could smoke everywhere. We smoked at the central desks on the floors.

en A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
  Mary Baker Eddy

en I thought the building was collapsing, so I ran out into the middle of the street, ... There was smoke all around. Initially I thought there had been a short circuit on the electricity pole. But then I saw the hands of children and young women raining down from the sky.


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