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- I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.
- E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out…
- I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs.…
- Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is…
- One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels,…
- Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster