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Slabs Quotes

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Ogden Nash
John Brown, Brown, Slabs
'Lather as You Go' (1942)

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Anton Chekhov
Mean, Faces, Slabs
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

P. G. Wodehouse
Speed, Bigs, Slabs

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