To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in
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I feel all dead inside. I'm backed up in a dark corner and I don't know who's hitting me!
Since I am upon this Subject, I must observe that our English Poets have succeeded much better in the Stile, than in the Sentiment
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Three characteristics mark all confirmed expatriates: (1) slowness on the up-take, (2) the tendency to personalize the impersonal-
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[On Harvard President Charles William Eliot's lamentation that the average Harvard graduate had fewer than two children:] That is
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school w
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin--a la
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The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it
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I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you
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