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2011-07-04 ~ Mark

When we get better at expressiveness, we get better at understanding, better at sympathy, better at bullshit-detection, better at experiencing pleasure, better at true engagement (with others, with the world, with ourselves).

George Saunders. Which reminds me of one of my oft-quoted favorite Phrases to Live By: “If you write like porridge you will think like it, and the other way around.”
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