“If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.”

— William Zinsser

Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.

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“Who wants a stylus? You have to get them and put them away and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus.”

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2005-09
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“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”

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Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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“If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.”

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