"It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience."

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Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an argument so that everybody can wade in with an opinion without having to undergo the inconvenience of having to read the book itself. The more you can condense it, the better.

— Geoff Dyer