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But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
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 b
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“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
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Cyril Connolly said that literature is writing meant to be read twice—everything else is mere journalism.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
It would have suggested many things to a philosopher to have dealings with him. To a stranger he appeared to know nothing of things in general; yet I sometimes saw in him a man whom I had not seen before, and I did not know whether he was as wise as Shakespeare or as simply ignorant as a child, whether to suspect him of a fine poetic consciousness
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