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Started re-reading recently for the first time in ages. [[When was this? Maybe fall of 2018 or 2019? Or was it summer 2015, right after I read the Hobbit? In any case, I only got through Fellowship last time.]]Both here and in The Hobbit, I was struc ...more "
“Science is not about building a body of known ‘facts’. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good.”
― The Science Of Discworld
― The Science Of Discworld
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
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― Jingo
“Never reward writing with not writing. Rewarding writing by abandoning your schedule is like rewarding yourself for quitting smoking by having a cigarette.”
― How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
― How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
“Child,” said the Sand-fairy sleepily, “I can only advise you to think before you speak” –
“But I thought that you never give advice.”
“That piece doesn’t count,” it said. “You’ll never take it! Besides, it’s not original. It’s in all the copy-books.”
― Five Children and It
“But I thought that you never give advice.”
“That piece doesn’t count,” it said. “You’ll never take it! Besides, it’s not original. It’s in all the copy-books.”
― Five Children and It
“When confronted with their fruitless ways, binge writers often proffer a self-defeating dispositional attribution: "I'm just not the kind of person who's good at making a schedule and sticking to it." This is nonsense, of course. People like dispositional explanations when they don't want to change [...]”
― How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
― How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
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