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Writing and learning and thinking are the same process


William Zinsser

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ganar la lotería
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que nadie ha dicho nunc...
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH Education and acquision of knowledge must make you humble and increase the sense of accepting the pe...
HIMMILICIOUS Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
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WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
WILLIAM ZINSSER There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Writing is a craft not an art.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Writing is thinking on paper.
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WILLIAM ZINSSER Less is more.
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Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE