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“Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, my God, never. Svatislav Richter, to the second flute at Covent Garden PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT prose style many things—persuasion or mere music, duty or pastime, ornament only, the man himself. It has been left for Americans to think it a problem: the National Problem, the Communications Problem.”
― Richard A. Lanham, Style: An Anti-Textbook

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“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

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“When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.”
― Richard A. Lanham, Style: An Anti-Textbook

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“In the ensuing discussion at the Manila workshop, I compared the search for a responsible mine to the pursuit of a mythical beast that people believe in because they have heard stories of its existence, even though no one claims to have seen it.18”
― Stuart Kirsch, Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics

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“by an active participant in political campaigns against the excesses of the mining industry, rather than by a neutral observer. Instead of jeopardizing access to key informants and events, engagement with these issues has provided me with an insider perspective on the interactions between corporations and their critics. It has offered new sites for ethnographic observation, new questions for research, and new perspectives on the corporation.”
― Stuart Kirsch, Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics

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