Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter t…

Joseph Heller
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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