Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
James RichardsonTags: power
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
James RichardsonTags: emptiness
I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.
James RichardsonTags: work vicious-circle
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.
James RichardsonTags: wisdom truth proverbs aphorisms
To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.
James RichardsonIf it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
James RichardsonHere in the last minutes, the very end of the world, someone's tightening a screw thinner than an eyelash, someone with slim wrists is straightening flowers...
James RichardsonTags: another-end-of-the-world karen-thompson-walker the-age-of-miracles
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