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- Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some… — William Zinsser
- As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. — Gautama Buddha
- A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's… — John Dos Passos
- There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it… — Charlie Kaufman
- The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people… — Susan Orlean
- If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the… — Boyd Rice