“Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.”
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
“Price fixing is a bit like jumping off a tall building shouting, “I abolish the law of gravity.” You cannot simply decree that something is worth more than anyone will pay for it or less than sellers will accept for it.”
― The Shackled Continent
― The Shackled Continent
“Thus the story describes a full circle... a vicious circle as all circles are, despite their posing as apples, or planets, or human faces.”
― Nikolai Gogol
― Nikolai Gogol
“Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“Dimly, I recall running up to his chair to show him a pretty pebble, which he slowly examined and then slowly put into his mouth.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
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