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Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#am #anything #best #between #day

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves? ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#discovery #beauty

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. ↗

— George Thorogood

#eagles #i #live #world

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#discussions #each #graphics #make #part

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

#cure #discard #error #expect #experience

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. ↗

— George Washington

#comprehensive #discourse #men #short #your

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. ↗

— William Watson

#know #large #liberal #thirst #understand

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare