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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. -- Frank Moore Colby
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. -- Edward Hopper
If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely. -- Drew Houston
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. -- Paul Theroux
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. -- Suzanne Vega
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. -- Andre Gide
He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). -- Thomas Browne
Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely. -- Florence King
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, -- Langston Hughes
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. -- H. M. Tomlinson
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places. -- Jim Butcher
Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating. -- Donald Barthelme

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