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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram
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"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram"

- Don Marquis

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This quote by Don Marquis is an amusing way of explaining the art of creating news article. He is suggesting that the skill of writing news article is to take a basic, typically overused phrase as well as make it sound more intriguing as well as creative. This is done by including creative wordplay and also amusing figure of speeches, to ensure that the expression is changed into a quip, which is a short, brilliant stating. This quote is a funny means of describing the ability of creating newspaper articles, and it suggests that the author has to be imaginative as well as clever in order to make a basic expression noise much more interesting and also memorable.
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Don Marquis This quote is written / told by Don Marquis between July 29, 1878 and December 29, 1937. He was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 39 other quotes.

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