Jon Franklin quotes
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“Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.”
-- Jon FranklinSource : Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet
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“The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.”
-- Jon FranklinSource : Jon Franklin (1987). “Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner”, Signet
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“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”
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“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”
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“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”
Source : Program notes to "Avak The Healer", 1946.
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“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
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