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- Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
- In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,…
- I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage…
- A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog,…
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if…
- The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
- The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while…
- The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
- I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
- The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought…
- Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
- 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…
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