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en A prose style as sharp and clean as a bleached bone on a beach.

en Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well. She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday. Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

en I'm all for letting dogs on a beach. If it were up to me, I would allow them. What I think is the problem is that people don't clean up behind them, just like they don't clean up after themselves.

en You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
  Vladimir Nabokov

en A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

en A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

en The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
  John Scott

en Sometimes it's just being able to get sufficient quantities or having the right stock on the shelf at the right time. We also face styles constantly changing or being discontinued. Each new style means a different last, which means different fitting characteristics. The size scales vary greatly from style to style and company to company. You've got to stay sharp to be a good fitter.

en And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: / And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: / And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

en Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
  Dorothy Parker

en I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

en I thought maybe if I tape it and I support it maybe I could push through, ... But the foot went to the outside and down. So on the outside three ligaments were gone and on the inside I had the compression of the bone hitting bone, so I have a bone bruise on the inside.

en Our older Palm Beach clientele still want the old-style mattresses.

en There [is] a pretty good-sized contaminated sand area between 21st and 20th streets on the Strand [in northern Manhattan Beach]. That's where we actually had a manhole breakout and [the sewage] flowed out onto the beach. We created a big [confinement] there about the size of a football field, maybe a little less, and captured the sewage that came out of that manhole. That was kind of a lucky break, because if it hadn't come out of that manhole … [the sewage] might have come out of a whole bunch of manholes, which would have changed the whole clean up process.

en Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
  Henry Rollins


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