Quotes floating on the editor’s desk. No. 2

As per MARK TWAIN
We have natural and justifiable distrust of talky men who make a sounding and ostentatious pretense of saying a thing and yet don’t say it after all — men who hide a mustard-seed of an idea in a kaleidoscope of words, so that the more you turn the thing the more you can’t quite capture that elusive little idea, because it always takes refuge, just in time, behind a new and bewitching rainbow-explosion of fine language …
– in a letter to unidentified friend, 1876

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