The shortest answer is doing the thing.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
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