James Richardson: Doing

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“To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that’s on their minds, even before it’s on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a walkman so what’s going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn’t much like being talked at; he can’t conceal how easily he gets bored.”

James Richardson

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

People , Thinking

“Often you only have to ask What would I do if I were not afraid?”

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“Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.”

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Love , Books , Feeling , Thinking

“A belief is a question we have put aside so we can get on with what we believe we have to do.”

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Question

“It’s amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?”

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Boy

“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

People , Way

“If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.”

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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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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Children

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

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“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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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Music

“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.”

James Richardson

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

Imagination , Star , Reality , Sleep