"We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess."

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Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

— Vladimir Nabokov