"I figure: I'd spend my first thousand years of Hell in some entry-level position, but after that I wanted to move into management. Be a real team player. Hell is going to see enormous growth in market share over the next millennium. I want to ride the crest."
Chuck Palahniuk

 

Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don’t start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

William Safire, Great Rules of Writing (via pavorst)

A Homeboy's Life: Four stages of the game

ahomeboyslife:



• You don’t even realize there’s a game. (And any contest, market, project or engagement is at some level a game).
• You start getting involved and it feels like a matter of life or death. Every slight cuts deeply, every win feels permanent. “This is the most important meeting of my life…”
•…

vintageanchor:

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.” —Gabriel García Márquez

vintageanchor:

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
—Gabriel García Márquez