"A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work."

-- William Zinsser

#Hard Work Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.”
“I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.”
“simplicity is the key of elegance”
“Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.”
“The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.”
“... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.”
“You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.”
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

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