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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
I don't like to write, but I love to have written
I don't like to write, but I love to have written
Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is read more
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
Don't get it right, just get it written
Don't get it right, just get it written
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read more
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they read more
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have read more
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
