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“nothing was useful which was not honest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Everything you do, is useful, even if it is not apparent at the time.”

— Debbie Jeffrey

“I found it increasingly difficult to shake the suspicion that work was all about pretending to care about pointless stuff, and that success hinged…

— Johanna Hedman

“Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.”

— Saul Bellow

“For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless.”

— Donna Tartt

“Nothing was deceptive. Nothing was much harder to describe or fix or stop.”

— Kami Garcia

“making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires…

— Oscar Wilde

“My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need to lie,…

— Jo Nesbø

“You may ask what is the use of my deeds when they are proved useless.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“He had a weakness, though. All of us do, and those of us who think they do not are not being honest.”

— J.R. Ward

“it's amazing the things you can convince yourself of when the alternative seems like too much work.”

— Clayton Baker