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"Trudging through the Ancient Greeks, who, thankfully, I studied at school. There are still areas I don't understand, despite Grayling's clear, entertaining, and faintly academic explanations—the Presocratics being a particularly tiring arena. But it's worth the wading; reading real philosophy exercises the mind, challenges it, even if the concept is impenetrable." — Feb 21, 2020 05:06PM
"Trudging through the Ancient Greeks, who, thankfully, I studied at school. There are still areas I don't understand, despite Grayling's clear, entertaining, and faintly academic explanations—the Presocratics being a particularly tiring arena. But it's worth the wading; reading real philosophy exercises the mind, challenges it, even if the concept is impenetrable." — Feb 21, 2020 05:06PM
“Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.”
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“Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce.”
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“these verses have become a thing and one can take them off the page and throw them at a window, and the window would break. That's what words can do!”
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
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