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The Case of the Repeated Noun

When the same noun is used on both sides of the verb it has a remarkable effect. It confers a meaning that may entrance, or even inspire the reader. Linking the same stem in this manner confers a deeper meaning and affect an emotional response.  If implies a deeper meaning, which actually upon reflection is incumbent on the reader to create.  It is really just a linguistic trick used by all the our masters* of language.  But they must be applied with the author mindful of just the right application.

Here is a famous quote: "Luck is believing you're lucky." --- Tennessee Williams
Here is another:
Dryden to Lawrence (of Arabia) in the film: "It is recognized you have a funny sense of fun." 

The remaining of these were generated from noun and verb lists.  Though all were constructed in just two hours, it should take you just two minutes to review.  All bunk.
  • Hope is in the imagination of the hopeful.
  • Freedom is life's realization to be free.
  • Memory is in itself a memory.
  • Success breeds success.
  • Depression suffers its own depression.
  • Depression is the mother's milk of the depressed.
  • The optimist survives sometimes only on optimism.
  • Letters from home are the letters of a past life.
  • A tendency in this direction often implies a tendency in that.
  • Thinking thoughts of hope amount to thinking thoughts of joy.
  • We always need more information about the information.
  • A moment is merely a moment, momentarily considered only at the moment.
  • War is a war upon humanity.
  • The proof resides mostly believing in the proof.
  • Proving is believing in the proof.
  • A war is but an episode in the eternal human war.
  • A war is but a single battle in the eternal human war.
  • Timing your actions is also timing your results.
  • Shelter the enslaved is to enslave the sheltered.
  • To throw a switch may be to switch the game.
  • Shaving your odds too close may shave reality from your options.
Your assignment.  Make up a couple of these.  Note how amazing the use of a repeated noun has upon the effect to amaze.
*BTW, I am not one of these masters but just noticed one of the masters' tricks.
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