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Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

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Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

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Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'

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. . . it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F. D. R. used the phrase earlier.

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