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Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

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William Safire

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

Ambiguity, Ems, Eye, Hot, Shot
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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.

Boxing, Knowing, Prose, Reader, Space

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'

Avoid, Mark, Marks, Quotation, Quotation Marks, Quotations

. . . 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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Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

Admit, Color, Grace, Precision, Style
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