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> [“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go on if we don't, can't stop saying what it means, can't stop giving us something to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/music-is-the-highest-art-no-question-but-literature-is-a-friendlier/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

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## More by James Richardson

> [If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/if-you-do-more-than-your-share-you-d-better-want-to-otherwise-you-re/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [All work is the avoidance of harder work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/all-work-is-the-avoidance-of-harder-work/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Anger has been ready to be angry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/anger-has-been-ready-to-be-angry/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/metaphor-isn-t-just-a-fancy-turn-of-speech-it-shapes-our-thoughts-and/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/who-breaks-the-thread-the-one-who-pulls-the-one-who-holds-on/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/bitterness-is-a-greater-failure-than-failure/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/i-sell-my-time-to-get-enough-money-to-buy-it-back/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Too much apology doubles the offense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/too-much-apology-doubles-the-offense/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/it-is-by-now-proverbial-that-every-proverb-has-its-opposite-for-every/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [There are silences harder to take back than words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/there-are-silences-harder-to-take-back-than-words/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/reason-is-the-lesser-faith-that-steers-us-when-we-have-already-lost-a/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/if-it-can-be-used-again-it-is-not-wisdom-but-theory/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [“On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays 1. A beginning ends what an end begins. 2. The despair of the blank page: it is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/on-writing-aphorisms-and-ten-second-essays-1-a-beginning-ends-what-an/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/any-virtue-systematically-applied-becomes-a-vice-morality-is/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

> [Nothing important comes with instructions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-richardson/nothing-important-comes-with-instructions/)

[James Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-richardson/)

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