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It is worth noting that Wittgenstein once said that a serious and good philosophical work could be written that would consist entirely of jokes, without being facetious.
~ Norman Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, 1958
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~ Kamil Gibran
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There are many writers who possess a lot of talent; I don’t know a writer who doesn’t. But the only possible way of contemplating things, the only exact contemplation, the only way of expressing what has been seen, requires something else.
…Any great writer, or simply good writer, crafts a world in accordance with his own specificity.
Such a thing is consistent to its own style, although it is not solely about the style. It is, in short, the inimitable signature that the writer puts on all his things. This is your world and not another one. This is what separates one writer from another. It’s not about talent. So much talent all around us. But a writer who possesses that special way of contemplating things, and who knows how to give an artistic expression to his contemplations, takes time to find himself.
