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pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"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."
—Raymond Chandler, letter to the editor of the Atlantic monthly, quoted in The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959 by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane
(Not being Raymond Chandler, I would like to state that I value my editing and proofing friends and colleagues highly.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
"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."
—Raymond Chandler, letter to the editor of the Atlantic monthly, quoted in The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959 by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane
(Not being Raymond Chandler, I would like to state that I value my editing and proofing friends and colleagues highly.)
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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Date: 2009-12-17 09:45 pm (UTC)-- Alexander Woollcott