“Let me continue the Sisyphean task of expanding your vocabulary. One feels empathy when one has been there; sympathy when one has not.”
― Palace of Treason
― Palace of Treason
“pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Drinking during such an occasion was not simply comforting. More essentially, it proved liberating, as it freed the individual from mundane duties and returned him or her to a primeval state of spiritual solace.”
― Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
― Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
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