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‘Every honest man and woman is a juvenile, too,’ he said, ‘and the old humour is always at your elbow. Some people in life are just stars, and this geezer is responsible for some of the biggest laughs I’ve enjoyed in my life. I know that might sound like a small thing to say, but think about it.’
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022

arranger Gil Evans,
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Bill Watterson: 'Some Thoughts on the Real World by One Who Glimpsed It and Fled', Kenyon College - 1990
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A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
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