Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITEThe 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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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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 rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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