usuable quotes

Murthy Yenamandra yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Fri Jun 13 13:06:07 CDT 1997


john wells writes:
> "Why don't you write books people can read?"
>                            Nora Joyce to James

I see that and raise you this:

"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and
easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus
little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that
attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to
them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

    - Nietzsche, _Human All Too Human_

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Every heart/to love will come/but like a refugee" - Leonard Cohen




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