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""Would you like me to arrest you?" I asked. That's an old police trick. If you just warn people they often simply ignore you, but if you ask them a question they have to think about if. Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down - unless there drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian." — May 16, 2021 06:55AM
""Would you like me to arrest you?" I asked. That's an old police trick. If you just warn people they often simply ignore you, but if you ask them a question they have to think about if. Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down - unless there drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian." — May 16, 2021 06:55AM
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“The three most important people in her life are gone, and she will never see them again. The stark loneliness of that knowledge cuts her to the bone.
She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means -- not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.”
― Recursion
She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means -- not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.”
― Recursion
“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
― Velocity
― Velocity
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