"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer."

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Source : "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

William P. Alford

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.”
“When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.”
“I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.121, Petrarca Press
“We opened El Bulli; there were no secrets there. The recipes were not secret. Anybody who came, the recipes were there for them. This was unthinkable then.”
“I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.”
“By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.”
“They call me the trippy king.”
“I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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