Edited Aphorism Quotes

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely. ~ Bill McKean

Preacher: "This is the word of God!"
Constantine: "The edited word of God ~ Garth Ennis

Why must an aphorism be brief?
Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house. ~ James Geary

Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century - particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their massive collection of German fairy tales (revised and edited to reflect the Brothers' patriotic and patriarchal ideals), providing inpiration for novelists, poets, and playrights among the German Romantics. Recently, fairy tale scholars have re–discovered the enormous body of work produced by women writers associated with the German Romantics: Grisela von Arnim, Sophie Tieck Bernhardi, Karoline von Günderrode, Julie Berger, and Sophie Albrecht, to name just a few. ~ Terri Windling

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. ~ Chuck Klosterman

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ~ Samuel Butler

It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. ~ Nanci Kincaid

You get what you want and you become its slave. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy. ~ Marty Rubin

She described how Camus's aphorism "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" helps her fight back against unproductive feelings of meaninglessness.
If we consider, like Camus, Sisyphus at the foot of his mountain, we can see that he is smiling. He is content in his task of defying the Gods, the journey more important than the goal. To achieve a beginning, a middle, an end, a meaning to the chaos of creation - that's more than any deity seems to manage: But it's what writers do. So I tidy the desk, even polish it up a bit, stick some flowers in a vase and start.
As I begin a novel I remind myself as ever of Camus's admonition that the purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. And even while thinking, well, fat chance! I find courage, reach for the heights, and if the rock keeps rolling down again so it does. What the hell, start again. Rewrite. Be of good cheer. Smile on, Sisyphus! ~ Fay Weldon

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones. ~ Comte De Lautreamont

(Shake an aphorism, he said, and in most cases a lie falls out, leaving only a banality.) ~ Clive James

You say that like she edited Ulysses," I said. "I don't care!" said my friend. "It was a No. 1 best-seller!" VII. ~ Keith Gessen

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen) ~ Dorothy Allison

In his life there was only one woman. The other one. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

It's easy to reach the top. You have to bow. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going. ~ Iain Reid

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing. ~ Linda F. Radke

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed. ~ Brene Brown

No one can touch us. We are unbelievable. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books. ~ Frances Osborne

AWARENESS IS THE
OCEAN FLOOR,
THINKING THE
SURFACE.
SPIRITUAL SEEKER
THE DIVER,
NONSEEKER THE
SWIMMER ~ Nara InneresGold

The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next. ~ Anne Enright

I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists. ~ Daryl Wein

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep. ~ Brian Spellman

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste. ~ Alice Meynell

History is most important to those without a past. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The Earth orbits round tables. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split. ~ Jack Vance

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ~ Mel Brooks

wash off the journey ~ Okey Ndibe

In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged. Over email and text, though, I am given those few additional beats I need to be the better, edited version of myself. To ~ Julie Buxbaum

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. ~ Mason Cooley

Clothes make the man. Especially the pockets. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious. ~ Jodhi May

If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime. ~ Sharyn McCrumb