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A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
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If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Kingsley Amis
Born:
April 16, 1922
Died:
October 22, 1995
(aged 73)
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