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William Strunk, Jr. has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
— Woody Allen
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The crazy thing is, I never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous.
— Jessica Simpson
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The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things.…
— Amy Poehler
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Sex and death are two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.
— Woody Allen
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After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's…
— Jayson Werth
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All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue…
— C.S. Lewis
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I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.
— Dave Barry
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
— Kurt Cobain
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I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.
— Barry Manilow
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The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The…
— Sylvia Plath
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3-D movies can make me nauseous.
— Sara Paxton
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