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|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|57 = '''You must have one grand passion.'''<br />
|57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br />
|58 = '''Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.'''<br />
|58 = '''Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />

Revision as of 15:10, 29 October 2018

Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
John Steinbeck

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing