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1 decade ago in Quotes
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. [..] But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
1 decade ago in Quotes
Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
1 decade ago in Quotes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
1 decade ago in Quotes
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.