April 2011
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via thebronzemedal)
How to Write Good
thelastingkind:
Avoid alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One...
“A suggestion: when you finish reading, go outside and find a living thing you do...”
– William Least Heat-Moon, Prairyerth.
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“You know, I think of the lips I’ve kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and...”
– Albert Camus (via anvn)
“If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything...”
– Ken Robinson (via heartmindspirit)
