"All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala."

-- Lynne Truss

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“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105
“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.”
“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field.”
“The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.”
“Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life”
“If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist â€” he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.”
“I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.”
“Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.”

Source : "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 47, 1987.

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