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Critics should be among the first to notify us when the truths we hold to be self-evident cease to be true.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base mot
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Jill Abramson • 3 highlights
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La tête bien garnie, Janine Ceccaldi est une femme de caractère qui, adolescente, a lu avec passion Fiodor Dostoïevski. L’écrivain russe l’a marquée au point que, presque octogénaire, elle connaît encore par cœur des passages entiers de Crime et Châtiment, des Frères Karamazov, des Possédés, un roman cher au cœur de son fils, celui qu’il dit avoir
... See moreBUCHET CHASTEL • Houellebecq: La biographie d'un phénomène (ESS DOC AUT) (French Edition)

“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
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Rousseau was the least academic of modern philosophers and in many ways was the most influential. His thought marked the end of the Age of Reason. He propelled political and ethical thinking into new channels. His reforms revolutionized taste, first in music, then in the other arts. He had a profound impact on people’s way of life; he taught parent
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simplifying your language doesn’t simplify your message: Accessible writing can still be profound. “I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences,” said essayist Paul Graham. “That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with it. The less energy they expend on your prose
... See moreEddie Shleyner • Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter
Nora Ephron, “The Best Journalism Teacher I Ever Had,” Northwest Scholastic Press, June 18, 2013, www.nwscholasticpress.org/2013/06/18/the-best-journalism-teacher-i-ever-had/#sthash.ZFtUBv50.dpbs; also written about by Ephron in her essay “Getting to the Point,” in Those Who Can … Teach! Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference, by Lorraine Glenn
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