Christopher
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"The year is 1941.
"The work keeps growing in size in my mind, but the redaction is retarded, anemic. . . . I make a great many books in my head but I don't even take the trouble to start writing them. . . . This whole ocean of projects proves that I'm close to losing my profession."" — Mar 12, 2017 12:27PM
"The year is 1941.
"The work keeps growing in size in my mind, but the redaction is retarded, anemic. . . . I make a great many books in my head but I don't even take the trouble to start writing them. . . . This whole ocean of projects proves that I'm close to losing my profession."" — Mar 12, 2017 12:27PM
“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
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“A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
― Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
― Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“Every time I meet a prostitute, she wants to talk about God. And every time I meet a priest, he wants to talk about sex.”
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“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
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“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
― The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
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