"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"

-- George Orwell

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“All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.”
“Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.”

Source : "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
“Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.”
“No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.”

Source : "American Heroes of Exploration and Flight". Book by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102, 1996.
“In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.”
“The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can't even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.”
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.”

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