Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job." "Not proud, sir," said Runnel. "But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future—and were reluctant.

Written By Neal Stephenson

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