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  •    They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.

    - Richard Brautigan
      On  Japanese poets.  June 30th^ June 30th.

  • The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and colour if the storm is not therein?

    - Albert Pinkham Ryder
    Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

  • Retail is detail.

    - Howard Schultz
      Onbuilding Starbucks, thelargest US coffee-bar chain and mail-order business. In the NewYorkTimes,14 Dec.

  • Our life is frittered away by detail.

    - Henry David Thoreau
      Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Where I Lived, andWhat I Lived For'.

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