"The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning thatâ€™s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing whatâ€”these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to the education and rank."

-- William Zinsser

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“I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.”

Source : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.142, Shambhala Publications
“I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.”
“The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.”
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.”

Source : Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.
“I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.20, Penguin
“No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.”
“Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.”

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