Crawford Kilian famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.
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If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.
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Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.
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Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.
-- Crawford Kilian
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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.
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At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
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I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
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Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!
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I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
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Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
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