The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you … - Christopher Buckley

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I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Christopher Buckley

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut. '

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That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

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How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

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Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

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Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

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Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.

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Sue Hubbell

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

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Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

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My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

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