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an instantly likable guy if the instant had not been this one.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
“Philosophy calls for simple living, but not for penance—it’s quite possible to be simple without being crude.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.5
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
The supply of time, though gloriously regular, is cruelly restricted.
Arnold Bennett • How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (A Classic Guide to Self-Improvement)
If anyone says that I am making mountains out of molehills, I confess with pride that it is so. I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Lillian Li • An introduction to Bilibili
The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way. We will henceforth refer to this as “the Cornfeld Principle.”
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Quarry’s audience was listening intently. (“The two most interesting things in the world,” Quarry once remarked: “other people’s sex lives and your own money.”)