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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x…
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I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,…
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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor…
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening…
— Arthur Koestler
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to…
— William Barrett
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like…
— Isaac Newton
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface…
— Will Burtin
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I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his…
— Ayn Rand
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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