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“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
― Mark Twain

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
― Mark Twain

“There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.”
― Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences