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Be obscure clearly.

E. B. White

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E. B. White
American - Writer
July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

E. B. White

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

David Christian

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Desiderius Erasmus

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Moby

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Desiderius Erasmus

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Bill Vaughan

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

Hilary Mason

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Samuel Beckett

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Donald Barthelme

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Charles Darwin

In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.

Wallace Stevens

Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

Ethan Coen

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Nicolas Chamfort

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

Kim Gordon

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