“It is madness to think that knowing a language and reading a few books can create allegiances between people. Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.”
― Flood of Fire
― Flood of Fire
“Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' But I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached. I hope that, after reading the following pages, the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
“I can hold my alcohol, just like I’m a wine bottle. I dance as fluid as glass, and my heart shatters just as easily.”
― This Book is Not for Sale
― This Book is Not for Sale
“Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.”
― You By You
― You By You
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