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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. — Hilaire Belloc
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible. — Norman Thomas
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. — John Locke
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination. — James Arthur Ray
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. — Thomas Jefferson
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. — Robert Quillen
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. — Mary Kay Ash
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. — Alexander Graham Bell
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. — Pericles
Short Digression Quotes
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old. — Benjamin Franklin
Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life. — Sayings
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too. — Dejan Stojanovic
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. — Robert Burns
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. — Terry Brooks
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics. — William Vickrey
The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him. — Mason Cooley
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. — Joseph Joubert
Digression is the soul of wit. — Ray Bradbury
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. — William Least Heat-Moon
Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. — Isaac Watts
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. — Marcel Proust
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens. — Bill Hybels
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury
Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating? — Andrew Bird
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. — Herman Melville
Waste not a day in vain digression;
with resolute, courageous trust
seek every possible impression
and make it firmly your posession
you'll then work on because you must. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing. — Dana Hill
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P. J. O'Rourke
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with. — Richard Linklater
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and there is a part when I digress and explain that the name Odysseus is related to the word for pain. Like "-odyne" in the word "anodyne," pain. It's the same, "-odyne" as in Odysseus. He's the man who both suffers endlessly, in trying to get home, but also inflicts a lot of suffering on everyone he visits. — Daniel Mendelsohn
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking to a clean narrative arc gives me some troubles. I've been told that I'm digressive and I'd have to agree. The odd anecdote that in no way relates to the "big idea" is just as illuminating and fascinating to me as anything else pertaining to the through-line. — Gina Ochsner
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes. — John D'Agata
In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions. — Howard Gordon
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required. — Richard Armour
In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes. — Kelly Link
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal. — W. Somerset Maugham
I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down. — Simone de Beauvoir
Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!” — Jeet Thayil
I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before. — Cheryl Strayed
Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all. — J. D. Salinger
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. — Donna Tartt
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. — Laurence Sterne
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better. — Marisha Pessl
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