Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. - William Zinsser

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It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself. ’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

William Zinsser

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

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The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

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Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

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If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

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