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«I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.»
«The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.»
«Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.»
«Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.»
«Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.»
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
«The art of newspaper paragraphing is / to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.»
«How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms»
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
«Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph»