"The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,"

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Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”

William Strunk, Jr.

#Nouns Quotes #Adjectives Quotes #Weak Quotes

“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
“One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.”
“The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (1926). “Letters to Judd, an American Workingman”
“I don't want to retire. I still want to play.”
“I've heard some things about how it went from the other side. A lot of times you don't get to hear from the other side. I'm just glad to have the opportunity to fill Rosita's shoes, and hopefully I can make the fans happy.”

Source : Source: www.askmen.com
“I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”
“Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the flaws in a piece of fiction are, unhappily, so often also the flaws of the writer.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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