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‘You know,’ said Arthur, ‘it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.’ ‘Why, what did she tell you?’ ‘I don’t know, I didn’t listen.’

Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Jerry Seinfeld said the following is one of his favorite jokes, the one that “would encapsulate my worldview.” A gardener was out tending to his beautiful, magnificent, thriving garden when another man walked by and stopped to admire it. “Boy,” the man said, marveling at the blooming flowers and the perfect rows of crops, “some of God’s best work, ... See more

SIX at 6: Some Of God’s Best Work, Making Your Own Turn, The Roy Kent Part, What’s Missing, An Abnormal Brain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald - Billy Oppenheimer

Deep is so un-American now, even radical. We live too often like water skeeters on the surface of the pond, dropping down for a quick bite of insect or e-mail. Deep is the realm of soul.

Anne Lamott • Hallelujah Anyway

”In my experience, here’s how essays form: You get all these bits of data that stick in your head… file drawers in your head. At a certain point you realize one of the drawers is now full, and you might have an essay.” Tim Kreider on the artist at midlife.

Jerry Seinfeld started performing stand-up comedy in 1976. Since then and to this day, every day he sits with a yellow legal pad and writes jokes. Given that he’s been honing his craft for 47 years, he was asked, “How do you know a joke is going to work on stage?” Seinfeld said, "You don’t." “You just trust yourself?” the interviewer asked. “No you... See more

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How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

Philip K. Dick urbigenous.net

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead

I didn’t ask him to specify, since if I had he’d surely have said he meant me and the octopus both, for the étude. “So guys says ‘Pay up,’ bartender says ‘Wait a minute,’ pulls out a guitar. Guy gives the octopus the guitar, octopus tightens up the E-string, closes its eyes, plays a sweet little fandango on the guitar.” Pressure building up, I tagg