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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
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But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to…
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I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I…
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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were…
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel…
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
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We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He…
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit…
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things…
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…
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We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things…
— Ernest Gaines
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
— E L Konigsburg
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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