Charles Caleb ColtonOur admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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When you’re writing a piece of writing, you’re trying to get people to like it and pay attention to it. The more difficult and the more difficult-seeming you make it, the better. You want people to think that you’re an expert and that they won’t be able to understand what you’ve written—and if they do, they shouldn’t make sense of it.
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