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“Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.”

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Edward Gorey was an American writer known for his distinctive black humor and Gothic style. His works spanned various genres, including children's literature, adult fiction, and illustration design. more

“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Children Said Boring Awful Nonsense No Point Sunny Schubert Happy Music

Book:Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

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“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”

Practice Theory Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.”

Doe Ends Eye Desire Interest Challenges Pay Week Satisfaction Merit Providing

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.”

World Tree Economic Dues Neglect Decay Asia Shameful Southeast Asia South Asia Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.”

Eye

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.”

World Choices Tasks Our Choices Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.”

Littles Seems Imagination Modern Industry Degrees Ordinary Remains Accomplish Unnoticed Inefficiency Power Of Imagination Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves”

Men Made Stills Higher Fellows Accidents Fellow Man Higher Power Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”

Joy Process Bliss Destroying Leisure Complementary Small Is Beautiful

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

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