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QotD: Before you can write (PWQ00012)

May 15 2025

“Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.” ~ John Irving

QotD: Natural ability (PWQ00038)

May 14 2025

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” ~ Cicero

QotD: Dangerous books (PWQ00020)

May 13 2025

“A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

QotD: Absurdity (PWQ00023)

May 12 2025

“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly implanted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” ~ Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

QotD: Absence (PWQ00039)

May 9 2025

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.” ~ La Rochefoucauld

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