The Paper Airplane

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The Paper Airplane
The Paper Airplane
On Brevity

On Brevity

And vita brevis

E. Lily Yu
Sep 07, 2021
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Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues—righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.

Rev. Sydney Smith, Edinburgh Review, 18111

I first read Lamott’s Bird by Bird many years ago, and was struck by her saying, after an account of a friend’s last days and how well they were lived: “the truth is we are all ter…

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