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|43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | |43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Wislawa Szymborska]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Wislawa Szymborska]]<br /> | ||
|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and [[opinion]]; the former begets [[knowledge]], the | |44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and [[opinion]]; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | |45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | ||
Revision as of 04:04, 17 May 2019
Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
— John Steinbeck
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing