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Suppose, now, that the rivers and lakes on Twin Earth are filled with a liquid that superficially resembles water, but which is not H2O. Then the word ‘water’ as used on Twin Earth refers not to water but to this other liquid (say, XYZ).
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
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