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“She believed in the principle of enoughness."
from "About Alice”
― Calvin Trillin

“Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.”
― Paul Graham

“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.”
― Louis Sachar

“...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.”
― Robert Wright

“For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!”
― Avi

“The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.”
― Mark Twain

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82