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Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E.B. White

Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White

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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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