“When I say something, this thing immediately and definitively loses its importance. When I write it down, it also loses it, but sometimes gains another importance.”
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“I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.”
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“With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.”
― One Man's Initiation-1917
― One Man's Initiation-1917
“An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.”
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