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"You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence."
- Porter, Katherine Anne

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22415/">You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5797/">Porter, Katherine Anne</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/language/">Language</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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