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pre-Socratic philosopher Meno. It read, “How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?”
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
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“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, Literary Critism, Literary criticism, education, technology, economics, Epistolary, and Academic
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