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Indirection Quotes

Too much zeal offends where indirection works Picture Quote #1

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines Picture Quote #1

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, and drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring from the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, by any indirection Picture Quote #1

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it Picture Quote #1

I don’t find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don’t think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life Picture Quote #1

There’s nothing in computing that can’t be broken by another level of indirection Picture Quote #1

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Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men Picture Quote #1

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it Picture Quote #1

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection Picture Quote #1

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial Picture Quote #1

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I’ve been thinking about something else Picture Quote #1

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