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One Quotes by Tom Hodgkinson
- One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when…
- The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of…
- One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
- I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer…
- In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply…
- When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would…
- ...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an…
- A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that…
- Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good…
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