She took her Kindle and a bottle of water out of her bag and settled back on the double seat, upholstered a long time ago in grey velvet, trying to get comfortable.
“This distinction is made in the Chinese language between shuohua (speaking) and t’anhua (conversation), which implies the discourse is more chatty and leisurely and the topics of conversation are more trivial and less business-like.”
― How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto
― How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto
“I've been reading eBooks since my first Palm Pilot in 1999.”
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“When you’re sick and dying, the ego is and should be the first thing to go. I know there’re gurus who teach people how to release the ego, to conquer the ego. I get it now, but I didn’t back when I was healthy. It’s moot now. The guy who falls off the toilet and knocks himself out no longer has an ego.”
― Silent Echo
― Silent Echo
“There is no last page to the poetry of John Ashbery. You will have had the experience; you can always have it again.”
― Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
― Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works
“Trust yourself. Taking in the good helps you see the good in yourself, and in the world and other people.”
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
― Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
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