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If it had been your exact thought you would have used my exact words.

Mar 222023
 

No aphorism wants to be born a cliché; every aphorism wants to die one.

Jan 122023
 

With so much bad writing about, it shows a deplorable lack of public spirit that so few will do their own small part to end it.

Nov 172022
 

Anyone who writes enough can be rendered an idiot, or a genius, by the simple expedient of direct quotation.

Nov 082022
 

Almost anything can be put into a work of art, which is the artist’s problem, and almost anything can be got out of it, which is the critic’s.

Nov 042022
 

Footnote Zero, n.  The original source of a dubious, often provably false, occasionally absurd claim repeated in numerous scholarly works.

Oct 282022
 

Language becomes hackneyed by always being placed in the same sterile surroundings, not by any fault of its own. Dead phrases can be revivified by bashing them against each other in a novel way, like rubbing sticks together to make a fire.