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Letter "S" » snipping
«It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.»
Author: David Leavitt
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World
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«Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...»
«Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.»
«I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.»
Author: John Ashbery
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In My Head,
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