Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WHITEIn a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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