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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
“If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead,”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
― Ship of Magic
― Ship of Magic
“Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.”
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“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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