The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win. It is possible to read…
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Your thorns are the best part of you. Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. The cure for loneliness is solitude. Marianne was one of America’s foremost poets and often…
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble. Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes…
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change,…
Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is…
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest,…
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Security is mostly a…
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it. When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to,…
