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“Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.”

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“Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply, that they have updated the next shipment of these cartridges, and that they will finalize their recommendations at the next meeting of the board. They are speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them--every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse.”

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“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

The Elements Of Style

Author:William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White