26 ordspråk av William Safire

William Safire

William Safire föddes den 17 Dezember 1929
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A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top -- purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

A sense of duty is moral glue, constantly subject to stress.

Because that would be foolish politically, and I think there's a lot of practicality going on.

For the sake of the country, the conservative cause, the Republican party and even his own long-term career -- he ought to resign.

Have a definite opinion.

I think we all have a need to know what we do not need to know

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write them down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

In the lexicon of lip-smacking, an epicure is fastidious in his choice and enjoyment of food, just a soupcon more expert than a gastronome ; a gourmet is a connoisseur of the exotic, taste buds attuned to the calibrations of deliciousness, who savors the masterly techniques of great chefs; a gourmand is a hearty bon vivant who enjoys food without truffles and flourishes; a glutton overindulges greedily, the word rooted in Latin for "one who devours." . . . After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome , burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet , repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton embraces the white porcelain altar, or, more plainly, he barfs.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight

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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Modern war needs modern lingo.

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