"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."
—Raymond Chandler
—Raymond Chandler
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I love that. And it reminds me of Churchill on prepositions - about which I found the best website: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html
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