“I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.”
Source: Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms
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Famous James Richardson Quotes
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“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”
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“The way things broken off a little too soon can last forever.”
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“We don't have to be anywhere. The party we left and the one we were headed to are probably over.”
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“and whatever happens to love that hasn't been used enough, has happened.”
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“Hope is a door left unlatched in a high wind banging and banging itself to pieces.”
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“a little run in the sheer black of the universe”
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Source: “The Challenges of Giving Up": "Finding the Strength to Begin Again”
“Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.”
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“I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.”
“Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.”
“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
“I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.”
“The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.”
“Too much apology doubles the offense.”
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“Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.”
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“Sophistication is upscale conformity.”
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“You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.”
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“Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?”
“What is more yours than what always holds you back?”
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“It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.”
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“Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.”
“How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.”
“Nothing important comes with instructions.”
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“When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.”