Two Thoughts (20 - 26 April)
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Sunday, 20 April
Two thoughts from Mario Vargas Llosa
“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
“Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.”
Monday, 21 April
Two thoughts from Johnny Cash
“The more I learn, the more excited I get.”
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
Tuesday, 22 April
Two thoughts from Carlos Fuentes
"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
"In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity."
Wednesday, 23 April
Two thoughts from Walter Lippmann
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”
“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.”
Thursday, 24 April
Two thoughts from Ben Lerner
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.”
“How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?”
Friday, 25 April
Two thoughts from John Brunner
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
“If the evidence says you’re wrong, you don’t have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.”
Saturday, 26 April
Two thoughts from Bill Browder
“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep at night.”
“In any major crisis, what you do in the first few hours defines it forever.”
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dear jim,
great quotes today! some of my faves:
Mario Vargas Llosa: “Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
Johnny Cash: “The more I learn, the more excited I get.”
Ben Lerner: “How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?”
John Brunner: “If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
thank you for sharing!
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myq
So many great thoughts this week! I was struck by this one in particular: "Writers are the exorcists of their own demons." Then again, I'm a sucker for quotes about writing. Thanks for the thoughts!