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“Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.”

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Author:Andre Benjamin

“Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.”

“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.”

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Author:Jon Foreman

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield