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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrive amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.'
I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him to be.'
Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. 'Let's have a little more religious freedom between us,' he proposed obligingly. 'You don't believe in the God you want to, and I won't believe in the God I want to . Is that a deal?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22