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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Oct 12, 2020 03:28PM

“A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Flotsam

tags: concentration-camps, peace, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, realism, troublemakers

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“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
― Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray

tags: history, royalty

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“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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