“If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Wasting one's time is one way of occupying it, not wasting time is also another way of occupying it, and not to mind going on wasting time even knowing that it is a waste of time is also another way of occupying it. … I have well understood life, and therefore I can do what I naturally want to do. To do what I naturally want to do is also a way of occupying time.”
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