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“When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing,”
― The Last Bookaneer
― The Last Bookaneer
“I think records started getting better again because everyone was dropping that tedious pose that there was no past. You could hear that The Clash were raiding their record collections for anything that they could turn into new songs.”
― Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
― Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
“I went ahead and read all of George Bernard Shaw’s plays for my own pleasure, because I liked the cut of his beard.”
― Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
― Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
“This is a book in favor of doing—self-directed, purposeful, meaningful life and work—and against "education"—learning cut off from active life and done under pressure of bribe or threat, greed and fear.”
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
“The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it’s the cash that has him.”
― Pensativities: Selected Essays
― Pensativities: Selected Essays
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