“My job is about being right. Always. If I’m ever wrong, I must make use of all my means and resources to bend and align reality according to my mistake so that it ceases to be a mistake.”
― Trust
― Trust
“Every life is organized around a small number of events that either propel us or bring us to a grinding halt. We spend the years between these episodes benefiting or suffering from their consequences until the arrival of the next forceful moment.”
― Trust
― Trust
“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“A just called from Z (again), asking for advice. Kolbe, Lenbach, London, NY etc., etc., etc., etc. As always, he mistakes doubt with depth, hesitation with analysis.”
― Trust
― Trust
“If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting the attention, it is you yourself.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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