Wilson Follett quotes
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“No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.”
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“Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.”
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“Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.”
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“It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.”
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“The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.”
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“The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.”
-- Wilson Follett
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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