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  • Pathos is your ability to listen to your audience with empathy.

    3 Things Don Corleone Knows About Writing | Write to Done 2010

  • Pathos is alive and well; there has never been a better time for British comics to lay themselves bare and talk to their audiences honestly about their experiences.

    Thanks to plucky Norman Wisdom, it's now OK to fail Stephanie Merritt 2010

  • Pathos is just something that people are immediately attracted to, not only because it's interesting, but everybody can relate to tragedy on varying levels, even if it's just heartbreak.

    Decemberists Day 2005

  • Pathos is just something that people are immediately attracted to, not only because it's interesting, but everybody can relate to tragedy on varying levels, even if it's just heartbreak.

    March 2005 2005

  • Pathos is always one step ahead; it does not stand on today's ground; it feeds on other nourishment than the nectar of the present moment; that, it can forego.

    Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture 1984

  • Pathos is a characteristic of heroism, and heroism is willing to endure torment and suffering, prepared to sacrifice itself if necessary.

    Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture 1984

  • Right now, that sounds like he’s trying to suggest that Pathos is the only person in the world that could have possibly killed Arach.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Wings’ Second Review Forum 2009

  • Every note is the word Pathos laid out on a scale with a clef sign at the beginning.

    M-O-O-N. That spells $%^&%^ Awesome. wendigomountain 2010

  • Sarah Palin pushes the emotional button. (termed Pathos by Aristotle) She is master at manipulating emotions and feelings that are part of the far right conservative camp.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Sarah Palin pushes the emotional button. (termed Pathos by Aristotle) She is master at manipulating emotions and feelings that are part of the far right conservative camp.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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