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I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'

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

Belches, Eating, Giving, Gourmet, Satisfaction, White

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

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

Ambiguity, Ems, Eye, Hot, Shot

. . . 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.

Baby, Forget, Hitler, Nwo, Order, Popularization

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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