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January 17, 2008
a sure sign of a good book
What you have to do to learn to write like Shakespeare is very far removed from reading him.
It is necessary for a writer to go out into the world, not so much to observe many situations as to get into many situations himself.
A sure sign of a good book is that the older we grow the more we like it.
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
George Lichtenberg - Aphorisms
Posted by amin at January 17, 2008 5:50 PM