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“work is the last socially acceptable addiction.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
― Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.”
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“You'll always lose when you play someone else's game.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“True balance is not an average. It is two forces in equal measure.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
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