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*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector.  ---Ernest Hemingway
*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector.  ---Ernest Hemingway
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*A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.  ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Advice From the Literature

  • Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble. If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one. ---Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005


  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. ---Richard P. Feynman


  • Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it. ---John Barrow
I guess then that the process that produced living things, if a simple one, is too simple to have produced minds able to understand it. ---A.S


  • However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. ---Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. ---Ernest Hemingway


  • A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein


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