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Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
Endless Idea…
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Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
To Jake, the word that comprised the relationship between a writer and their spark was “responsibility.” Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and not some other writer, and you paid that debt by getting down to work, not just as a journeyman fabricator of sentences but as an unshrinking artist rea
... See moreJean Hanff Korelitz • The Plot
ideas do not like to be treated as if they were lifeless, inanimate objects (would you?) and therefore they gravitate towards minds that treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve.
secretorum.life • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead
Une idée distingue la figure du fond. Une idée est une personnalité, pas un fait. Lorsqu’elle se manifeste chez quelqu’un, elle a tendance à faire de cette personne son avatar, à l’obliger à l’interpréter. Parfois, cette impulsion (ou possession) est si forte que la personne en meurt, plutôt que de laisser périr l’idée. C’est généralement un mauvai
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