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- When I was a teenager, newly fixated on becoming a writer, I came across a piece of advice from Kurt Vonnegut that affected me like an ice cube down the back of my shirt.
“Do not use semicolons,” he said. “They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”
briandmyers · 4682 days ago · link ·
Vonnegut's suggestion is still a good one (although harshly delivered, in this account!). One should know the rules well, and then break them as necessary.