"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
– Anton Chekhov


"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
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-- Ernest Hemingway

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