James Richardson: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.”

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“To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.”

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“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”

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Money , Time

“The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.”

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“They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence … to productivity. And they’re happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.”

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Confidence , Happiness

“I don’t know what’s meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.”

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“The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.”

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Problem

“Let me have my dreams but not what I dream of.”

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Dreams

“If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.”

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“I’m sitting here bored, … trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.”

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“Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren’t hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.”

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Love , Way , Envy

“To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.”

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“The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.”

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Love

“I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.”

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Music

“Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we’d prefer a different drink.”

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Aphorism #2
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Drink , Water , Happiness

“Path: where nothing grows.”

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Aphorism #19
Interglacial (2004)

“I’m surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that’s what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.”

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Imagination , Star , Reality , Sleep

“I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.”

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Aphorism #131
Interglacial (2004)

Understanding

“Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.”

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Courage , Patience

“What’s thinking? You live in a grandly appointed house, but spend all your time rummaging around in the attic for any little trinket you hadn’t known was there.”

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Thinking , Time , Housing