“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.” LifePainUnderstandingPleasureKnowledgeEvents Book:Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations Source: Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.” LittlesSoulPainTenBusyCirclesRighteousnessRatsDistrustSpinning Author:Mark Slouka
