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A MEDITATION

“ If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

— Epictetus

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On action

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A reflection

Aspirations without action are just daydreams in a different costume. If you're a reader, there'll be a book open. If you're a writer, there'll be pages. The work is the identity, not the self-description.

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