I almost always urge people to write in the first person. . . . Writing is an act … - William Zinsser

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Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

William Zinsser

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. . . . Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

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

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Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

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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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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

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Goran Persson

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

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Olaf Stapledon

Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

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James Joyce

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

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