James Richardson: Trending quotes (page 3)

“There are crimes I don’t commit mainly because I don’t want to find out I could.”

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#124
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“A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.”

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Life

“Impatience is not wanting to understand that you don’t understand.”

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Understanding

“Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. … Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.”

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#48
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Thinking , Sense , Heart

“Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.”

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Beauty

“He Thought Positively till he became a euphemism for himself.”

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Aphorism #98
Interglacial (2004)

“He does not deserve your praise, but he deserves to be treated as if someday he might.”

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“To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.”

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Sincerity

“Hasn’t there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.”

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Pain , Children , Feeling , Imagination

“So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.”

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Stupidity , Fear , Time

“Patience is decisive indecision.”

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#451
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Decision , Patience , Indecision

“Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.”

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Success

“To think yourself incapable of crime is one failure of the imagination. To think yourself capable of all crimes is another.”

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Imagination , Failure , Thinking

“Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.”

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Aphorism #115
Interglacial (2004)

Solitude , Time

“What did you do today? Nothing say our little children, and so do I. What we most are is what we keep mistaking for nothing.”

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#155
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Children

“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”

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Thinking

“Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.”

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Business , Water

“Anger has been ready to be angry.”

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Anger

“The god of many cannot remain the true god.”

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God

“I lied. And my embarrassment was so great that I changed everything else to make the lie true.”

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#403
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Lie , Change