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“A careful and honest writer does not need to worry about style. As you become proficient in the use of language, your style will emerge, because you yourself will emerge, and when this happens you will find it increasingly easy to breakthrough the barriers that separate you from other minds, other hearts - which is, of course, the purpose of writing, as well as its principal reward.”
― Strunk Jr., William, The Elements of Style

“Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.”
― Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

“They bought research as they bough vegetables - a wonderful insight into official thinking about science.”
― Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Problems in the Behavioural Sciences, Series Number 12)

“Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style