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Quote Left Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. Quote Right
Quote Left ... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overco... Quote Right

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Quote Left love attains it's purist and truest nature only when the hope dies. Quote Right