"Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules.""
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"The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world."
"So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes."
"Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood."
"The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end."
"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me."
"I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40."
"Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles."
"What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself."
"Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer."
"Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose."
"In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it."
"The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?"
"That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience."
"If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio."
"Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty."
"Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis."
"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."
"Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse."
"To stay awake all night adds a day to your life."