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Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
Explosions are not comfortable.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
