“You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I look at what we call faith, and all I see is superstition and subjugation . . . They create false divisions, and enslave us to fantasies, when we need to focus on the here and now.”
― The Golem and the Jinni
― The Golem and the Jinni
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... &
... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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“It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.”
― Master Harold...and the Boys
― Master Harold...and the Boys
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