“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
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