“It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 9
“Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
Orual
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
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John Knowles book A Separate Peace
Mr. Hadley on war.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 191
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost: A Backward Look, by Louis Untermeyer (1964), p. 18
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