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Oscar Wilde wrote, “Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.” Unfortunately that may describe the vast majority of us. The challenge we must overcome is that humans need work more than work needs us.
“It was a Saturday, so he was off work and had woken up pleasurably late after a night of equally pleasurable lovemaking.”
― Sour Candy
― Sour Candy
“while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Then there was a second male voice from the flight deck, this one remarkably calm and precise, making the passengers believe there was someone in charge after all, an element of hope: “This is American two-one-three to the cockpit voice recorder. Now we know what it’s like. It is worse than we’d ever imagined. They didn’t prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver. Our fear is pure, so totally stripped of distractions and pressures as to be a form of transcendental meditation.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
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