As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Sane
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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End Mean never
Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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Annoy Besides Bigot Demist Fant Irresistible Ladies Musch Prissy Say
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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All Carefully Leave Maker Patiently
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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Claim End Likely Over
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.

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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Dark Root
First sentences are doors to worlds.

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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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First Sentence
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.

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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
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Compact Crucial Device Efficiency Extremely Itself Often Pleasant Shown
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.

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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Chnagebale Ever Faithless Honor Jealous Sexual Some Threatened Through
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Awake Courahege Make
The light is the left hand of darkness.

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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Hanf Left
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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Child Doubt Eggplant Eradicated Suppressed
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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All Catering Lie Safety Validity Writer
Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.

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Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
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Best Breed Grammarly Language Morality Writer
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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