From Francis Bacon: “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
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Quote of the day 03/01/24
From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
Quote of the day 12/24/24
From William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
Quote of the day 12/04/24
From Douglas Adams: “Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe.”
Quote of the day 11/22/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
Quote of the day 11/19/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Quote of the day 11/16/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
Quote of the day 08/16/24
From Jack London: “Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
Quote of the day 03/29/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Quote of the day 12/30/23
From J.R.R. Tolkien: “They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.”
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