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“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”
― Norman Mailer , The Deer Park

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“happiness is the frequency of positive experiences, not the intensity.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

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“I read once that certain musical compositions (by Bach? by Beethoven? I forget) sounded like the efforts of the human soul to explain itself to God. If ever I find my perfect combination of brown and lilac, I’ll feel as though I’ve thus explained myself.”
― Gerald Murnane, Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf

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“Henry Ford’s reaction to a consultant who questioned why he paid $50,000 a year to someone who spent most of his time with his feet on his desk. “Because a few years ago that man came up with something that saved me $2,000,000,” he replied. “And when he had that idea his feet were exactly where they are now.”
― Rory Sutherland, Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man

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“Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies.”
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

tags: books, literature, reading, words, writing

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