Japanese Proverb on Action Over Contemplation

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Paul Theroux On The Human Impulse To Travel

June 17, 2022 · 1 min read

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to…

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Spiro Agnew On Media's Appetite For Conflict

September 6, 2022 · 1 min read

“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent…. The labor crisis settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to…

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Charles Bukowski on Writing

July 18, 2023 · 1 min read

* “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.” * “If I stop writing, then I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.” * “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”

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From Hesiod

September 9, 2020 · 1 min read

“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.” “It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.” “Work is no…

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If You Have So Many Disagreeable Ideas, Why Write About Them?

June 3, 2024 · 1 min read

In response to either a personal email or something I wrote in this blog (as you know, I have no memory these days), AS sent me the following four quotes about writers and writing, saying “The one by Kingsley…

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