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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a ci

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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The serial comma is sexy, smart, and useful. – Author unknown

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The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can’t keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. – Mark Twain

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[S]ometimes… quotation marks are an absolute crime against humanity. – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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