"Writing is thinking on paper."

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Source : "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser, Introduction, (p. vii), 1976.

William Zinsser

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“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

Source : John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing
“Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.”
“You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.”
“As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.”
“You donâ€™t make art out of good intentions.”
“Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him”
“How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.”
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”

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