“What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.”
― Naked
― Naked
“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Don’t just teach your children to read…
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.”
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“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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