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“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
― Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
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