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You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Bertrand Russell • In Praise of Idleness
When I talk about enjoying the void, I’m aware that this might sound like a kind of suicidal, or life-denying impulse. It’s the opposite, though. It’s not that I don’t want more life, or that I act without concern for my physical safety. I really like life and the body I happen to live in. It’s just that I experience it as gratuitous, something
... See moreSasha Chapin • Befriending the Void
I give this book to everyone. Tufte works through hundreds of syntax patterns and their effects on the reader, using real examples drawn from every type of writing imaginable.
This book is a fucking joy. https://t.co/3t797GQsYw
You don't have to prove anything. You can just try things.
Empirical insight is often superior to rational insight.
Simon Sarristwitter.com
“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”