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It's too long because he likes to write, lives to write, and writes to live.
by cossatot 11y ago
It's too long because he likes to write, lives to write, and writes to live.
- TheTrotters 11y agoAll the more reason it should have been shorter.
- majewsky 11y agoReminds me of the famous Blaise Pascal quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (also attributed to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot and others)
- Mz 11y agoYou know, I get accused a great deal of being too long winded. But long experience tells me that shortening it too much means I am not going to actually be understood. So, perhaps he has reasons other than Blow-Hard-itis for thinking that all those words were actually necessary.