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William Strunk, Jr. Quote: 'Vigorous writing is concise. ...'

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Cinema is incredibly concise.


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My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.
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Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.


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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.


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Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.


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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.


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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.


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Writing can't be taught.


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Writing bores me so.


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