Quotes of Strangling - somelinesforyou

“ Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. ”

- William Zinsser

“ The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. ”

- John Gregory Dunne

“ Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil… ”

- Macduff

“ The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. ”

- Raymond Chandler
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