“I don't like eloquence. If it isn't effective enough to pierce your hide, it's tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.”

"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
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American writer 1894–1961

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Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.”

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“I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.”

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“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”

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“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

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“The lifetime we've left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers.
I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough
So far away, but I still feel your pain.”

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“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.”

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“It is pretty well established that there is an overconfidence effect. … You don't have the competence to assess your own competence. … you need competence in order to assess your own competence. … Everyone has the Dunning-Kruger effect.”

Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist

SGU, Podcast #557, March 12th, 2016 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/557 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2010s

“In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.”

Rob Payne (1973) Canadian writer

Source: Working Class Zero (2003), Chapter 4, p. 33

“I don't like eloquence. If it isn't effective enough to pierce your hide, it's tiresome, and if it is effective enough, it muddles your thoughts.”

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