Marshall McLuhan on writing

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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