Can it be both raw and right?

“You know you guys are crazy?” said old Genady. “You tell one person that the way you write the material makes it right or wrong, but you ask another person to tell you whether it’s right or wrong before you’ve written it correctly and you’re angry that he tries to correct the writing.”

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Don't Overshorten

We learn what to do from the people who had trouble doing it.  It was the Talmudic grouch Shammai who said “Receive all men with good cheer.”  And it was Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, a writer wrestling with the ambiguities of Latin, who wrote “Take care not merely to make understanding possible, but to make misunderstanding utterly impossible.”

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