Eric Hoffer Quotes About Writing
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The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
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My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
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Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.
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Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
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