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Advice to Myself 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 offer then the sugestion that the process that produced and sustains living things, if a simple one, would be 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
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ---Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
- Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words. ---Whitaker
- One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. ---Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)
- You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. ---F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. ---Ludwig Wittgenstein