My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes d...iscuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that ...to compress it further can only make it more obscure?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you learned to compress almost everything in the first sentence, and the only phrase you needed was "plans were made to organi...ze." It took me a day to learn this, and that is all you have to learn in newspaper writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »