Wilson Follett famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
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Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
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Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
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It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
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The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
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The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
-- Wilson Follett
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
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Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
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