WritingLife

Ideas on life, writing and the writer’s life.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:

“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it.”

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘Gordian knot.’
https://t.co/rgX2MMm2oD

[The OED @OED]

OED #WordOfTheDay: mazily, adv.
In a confused or convoluted manner; as if in a maze.

View the entry: https://t.co/A6YJXHUhnF

[W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton]

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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”

-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable

“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”

-powerful
-commanding
-honest

[Jonathan Hoenig @JonathanHoenig]

“The Spirit Airlines demise should be of no surprise. I mean, respectfully to its former owners, no one liked that airline.”

My @ClassChicago312 interview w/@ScottHolleran @Autonomia2021: https://t.co/lPZ148AzE3

[Scott Holleran @ScottHolleran]

Get to know investor and @FoxBusiness/@FoxNews commentator @JonathanHoenig this weekend with my exclusive new interview with him in Classic Chicago Magazine.

@RickSantelli @ClassChicago312 @chicagotribune @Suntimes @chicago @Suntimes @nbcchicago @cbschicago @chicagochamber @PriceIsPrimary @TeamCavuto @MariaBartiromo @FoxNewsSunday @foxandfriends @CNBC

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Shane Parrish on why we should read biographies:

[WritingLife @WritingLifePost]

@JonathanHoenig interviewed by author @ScottHolleran for Classic Chicago Magazine about capitalism, “Ordinary People,” Glencoe, Illinois, “Atlas Shrugged” and living in Lincoln Park.

[Classic Chicago @ClassChicago312]

Get to know ‘Capitalist Pig’ Jonathan Hoenig in this exclusive interview by @ScottHolleran for this week’s edition: https://t.co/z99n89KfTq

[Classic Chicago @ClassChicago312]

Get to know ‘Capitalist Pig’ Jonathan Hoenig in this exclusive interview by @ScottHolleran for this week’s edition: https://t.co/z99n89KfTq

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

There are two possible outcomes:

• If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement.
• If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

-- Enrico Fermi

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘benevolent.’
https://t.co/O4lWz8zSzi

[LeoTerrell @TheLeoTerrell]

Mr. President: Iran CANNOT be trusted!

[Scott Holleran @ScottHolleran]

I agree with General Flynn down to the spelling of Teheran.

[Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin]

Even if — especially if — someone is the master of controlling the narrative, one does not like to wake up on a Sunday morning and find that he has lost control of the narrative.

Especially to @mikepompeo

*any* deal with Iran, short of full surrender, is going to require both spin and trust.

In this case, the former will struggle to overcome the utter lack of the latter.

[Scott Holleran @ScottHolleran]

Lying to the infidel is part of the Moslem faith. It’s in the Koran. The man of faith—ANY faith (belief without evidence)—who makes a pact on principle cannot be trusted. This is a fact of reality which is observable to any one who goes by reason. Beware the one who acts on faith.

cc: @marklevinshow @HooverInst @LTGHRMcMaster @GordonGChang @hughhewitt @SpencerGuard @billmaher @SecWar @SecRubio @SusieWiles47 @MELANIATRUMP @MarkHalperin @POTUS @Ayaan @Charlie_Hebdo_ @SalmanRushdie @united @Flight93NPS @911memorial

#LetsRoll

[Scott Holleran @ScottHolleran]

No Iran deal.

Any deal with evil constitutes America’s surrender.

Trump ought to decline becoming worse than Obama.

[Scott Holleran @ScottHolleran]

No, Mr. President. No pact with evil can be decent, let alone a deal. Don’t be like Obama.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of “The Odyssey” relies on a celebrated feminist translation. But people are right to feel that, in it, "the idea of a hero is being degraded," says classicist Isabella Reinhardt. It is thus yet another assault on a foundation of Western culture.