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We rejoice when we find remaining in the world any cases in which the individual can see the beginning and the end of his own work.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
William Hazlitt
Roger Bygott • 1 card
in the old age of our society, in a mood dangerously morbid, in a spirit only too ready to take the exception instead of the rule. If we find creatures that are half human, we may only too possibly make them an excuse for being half-human ourselves.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
H. L. Mencken said that “0.8 percent of the human race is capable of writing something that is instantly understandable.” He may have been a little high. Beware of dashing. “Effortless” articles that look as if they were dashed off are the result of strenuous effort. A piece of writing must be viewed as a constantly evolving organism.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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
used to think that the world was basically sane with patches of madness here and there which would recede as rationality and good jokes pushed their boundaries ever inwards. Now I have the opposite view entirely. But one of the patches of sanity that I treasure is my memory of St Peter’s, where people seemed to be doing a useful job in a conscienti
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Judd Apatow
But that’s the funny thing about this work: You can do something you really like and someone else just looks at it and says, “I need to end this today.”
Nico Walker • Daily Review | Readwise
Impressions on the standup comics and crowds in Midtown for the East Village.
Midtown: Long-Island like, sports and sex jokes, louder, more stereotypically New York, Mitch Hedburg, played into racial stereotypes, comfortable, comedy as a hobby, beer culture.
East Village: nuanced, less obvious punchlines, more believable personal stories, drug/marij