Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your r…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Dell Books
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Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Dell Books

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