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Something Quotes by William Zinsser
- Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors…
- But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want…
- If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes