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We Need Writers Who Know The Difference Between The Production Of A Commodity And The Practice Of An Art.

Lying Is The Misuse Of Language. We Know That. We Need To Remember That It Works The Other Way Round Too. Even With The Best Intentions, Language Misused, Language Used Stupidly, Carelessly, Brutally, Language Used Wrongly, Breeds Lies, Half-truths, Confusion. In That Sense You Can Say That Grammar Is Morality. And It Is In That Sense That I Say A Writer's First Duty Is To Use Language Well.

The End Justifies The Means. But What If There Never Is An End? All We Have Is Means.

Excess Is Excrement, ... Excrement Retained In The Body Is A Poison.

My Great-aunt. . . . Said Nobody Under 18 Had Any Business Reading Dickens. . . . She Was Right.