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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. And yet, when you have seen it, the whole world is altered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833)
4w ago

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. And the most dangerous of all follies is to mistake the map for the territory.

1mo ago
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

2mo ago

The difference between a tolerable decision and a good decision is that a good decision can be explained in one sentence. If you find yourself giving a speech to justify it, you've made a tolerable decision.

6mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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