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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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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.
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The best writing is rewriting.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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