Paragraphs Quotes
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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I found out - the paper used to go to bed on Tues - on Monday. I found out that on Monday nights, the editors would cut out - literally cut out passages, sometimes whole paragraphs, of some of the writers that might possibly offend blacks, lesbians, gays, radicals. And I wrote a couple of columns about that. And they're - of course, they were annoyed that I had written about it, but, I mean, it - another example - and my wife Margot always also conjured that.
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There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.
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Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.
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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
