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- Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the…
- One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
- All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing…
- The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know…
- It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and…
- Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage…
- Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while…
- I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I…
- Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few…
- And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide…
- Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique…
- You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing…
- And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired…
- You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
- One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle