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Jan 11, 2023 05:54AM

“Many experiments have shown that readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images,”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

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“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech, we are not aware of this being so. Only one of them is myself, the dreamer. In him I act and speak immediately, while I may be awaiting eagerly and anxiously what another one will reply”
― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

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“This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand this truth at an age when most guys are starting only to suspect the basics of adulthood--that life owes you nothing; that suffering takes many forms; that no one will ever care for you as your mother did; that the human heart is a chump.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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