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“I believe it is better to pay attention and to try to make your language as beautiful and graceful and adroit as possible.”
― Quack This Way
― Quack This Way
“What I lack is physical energy – to be lazy. My energy is spiritual and all I can do with it is work.”
― Papers and Journals: A Selection
― Papers and Journals: A Selection
“It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.”
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“Faust: What cheerful light breaks on my gloomy
fancies,
As in the midnight woods when moonlight
floods the skies?”
― Faust
fancies,
As in the midnight woods when moonlight
floods the skies?”
― Faust
“My main deficit, at least in terms of nonfiction prose, is I have difficulty of being as clear as I want to be. I have various tricks for working around that and making it kind of charming to watch somebody trying to be clear, but the fact of the matter is, I can’t be clear and compressed in the way that, say, parts of the preface of your dictionary that I liked very much are clear and compressed.”
― Quack This Way
― Quack This Way
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