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David Foster Wallace

“But you overuse the passive voice, you‘re distorting the normal order of the sentences. You’re filling it up, often with prepositions or with forms of the verb to be, which is one of the ways that writing gets flabbed out. And you’re dehumanizing the writing because there’s no agent. Right?. So it immediately becomes more abstract, so the reader’s eyes glaze over quickly.”

David Foster Wallace, Quack This Way
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Quack This Way Quack This Way by David Foster Wallace
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