Pfft. Trust me. I know. 
It's mainly because most people try to write they way they speak but in a "writerly" fashion. The result is always clunky, to say the least.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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