“If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely.”
― I Should Have Renamed This
― I Should Have Renamed This
“Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?”
― Too Much World
― Too Much World
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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“There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
to you.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
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